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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 19991001
Author:Hibberd, John

Franz Kafka. By RONALD SPEIRS and BEATRICE SANDBERG. (Macmillan Modern Novelists) Basingstoke: Macmillan. 1997. 161 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 11.50 [pounds sterling]).

This is only the second volume on a German novelist (the other is Thomas Mann) in a series comprising over forty titles, mainly on English-language writers, not all of the first rank. The series is designed, in the words of the General Editor's preface, for a range of readers, including those approaching a particular author for the first time, but places emphasis on close examination of texts rather ...

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