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• Coverpage
• The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka
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• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• 1 Life
• 1883–1912: childhood, youth and first employment
• 1912–1917: breakthrough, intimacy and crisis
• 1917–1924: illness, reflection, late happiness
• 2 Contexts
• The modern city: avant-garde, mass culture, pathology
• Psychoanalysis and intergenerational conflict
• Kafka’s Prague: multiculturalism, Judaism, Zionism
• 3 Works
• Early works
• ‘The Judgement’ and The Metamorphosis
• The Man who Disappeared
• The Trial
• ‘In the Penal Colony’ and A Country Doctor
• The Castle
• ‘Investigations of a Dog’, ‘The Burrow’, A Hunger Artist
• 4 Scholarship and adaptations
• Editions and translations
• Kafka scholarship: the challenge of interpretation
• Kafka in film: the challenge of adaptation
• Notes
• Guide to further reading
• Index