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The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka.(Book Review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20050401
Author:Tully, Carol

The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka. By WALTER H. SOKEL. (Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies) Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 2002. 336 pp. $39-95. ISBN 0-8143-2608-0.

The Cambridge Companion to Kafka. Ed. by JULIAN PREECE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2002. xx+254 pp. 40 [pounds sterling] (pbk 14.85 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-521-66314-8 (pbk 0-521-66391-1).

So much has now been written and published on Kafka's life and work that one must feel a certain degree of sympathy for the scholar approaching his oeuvre for the ...

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