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The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka

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From: German Quarterly
Date: 20060401
Author:Gross, Ruth V

Sokel, Walter H. The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 334pp. $39.95 hardcover.

The mark of great criticism is its timelessness. It remains as relevant and fresh when you read it twenty, thirty, even forty years after it was first published, as it was when it first appeared. So many of Walter Sokel's essays on Kafka fit this description, and that is why the appearance of his The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka was greeted with such enthusiasm by the world of Kafka scholarship when it appeared in 2002. In addition ...

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