243. (Franz Kafka)

Kafka’s The Trial revolves around the parable of the law; it is the hermeneutic puzzle that promises to be a key … More

240. (Franz Kafka)

To understand a work by Kafka, only a comparison with another work by Kafka will suffice. To make sense of … More

What is the appeal of criticism, of reading or doing it? It must rest in beguilement at judgment itself, and … More

The resemblance between Kafka’s The Castle and the Alice books is obvious. But the differences are more telling. In Kafka’s novel, there … More

The short story is the most resistant of literary puzzles: what it is, or what it does, or why people … More

He flickers through other writers, Doestoevsky (Smerdyakov begot by Uriah Heep) and Kafka, and reading The Trial I had convinced myself, … More