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A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka.(Book Review)

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From: Journal of European Studies
Date: 20040301
Author:Dood, Bill

A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka. Edited by James Rolleston. Rochester: Camden House, 2002. Pp. xvi + 372. 50.00 [pounds sterling].

This volume contains sixteen essays by leading Kafka scholars (with one exception, all based in North America). The book makes a good claim to covering Kafka's oeuvre in the round: each of the novels receives attention, as do the aphorisms, many of the stories, and major critical issues such as Kafka's aesthetics, his Jewishness, edition-critical questions, and the positioning of the reader in his texts. Stanley Corngold writes on Der ...

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