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Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka

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From: German Quarterly
Date: 20060101
Author:Gross, Ruth V

Corngold, Stanley. Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 262 pp. $45.00 hardcover.

When I last met Stanley Corngold at a convention in 2004, he remarked: "Kafka is so much better than whatever we can say about him." I cite this not as a commentary on Corngold's new book but as an example of his genuine reverence, enthusiasm, and love for the author. Only a handful of scholars writing today know Kafka as well as he does, and even fewer have Corngold's perceptive eye and keen ear for the subversions and complexities of Kafka's language.

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