Kafka-Handbuch
Leben – Werk – Wirkung
Ulf Abraham, Els Andringa, Michal Ben Chorin, Maximilian Burkhart, Stanley Corngold, Waldemar Fromm, Mark H. Gelber, Sander L. Gilman, Sabine Gölz, Hans H Hiebel, Alexander Honold, Oliver Jahraus, Andreas Kilcher, Christian Klein, Clayton Koelb, Detlef Kremer, Vivian Liska, Dagmar C. Lorenz, Michael Mueller, Christian Schärf, Monika Schmitz-Emans, Galili Shahar, Scott Spector, Annette Steinich, Henry Sussman, Joachim Unseld, Bettina von Jagow, Hans Dieter Zimmermann
This handbook gives insight into Kafka’s life, work, interpretations, impact of his work and current research. One section deals with Kafka caught between life and work – Kafka’s biography, the relationship with his father, towards women, to Max Brod as well as Kafka as letter- and diary writer, as civil servant and as ill person. Another section focuses on Kafka’s publication during his life time, unpublished works and his practice of editing, writing and his merging with space, time and system. This is followed by various interpretation perspectives and single interpretations showing the variety of sublayers and examplifying the diverse research produced on Kafka’s work.
