The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka

by Walter H. Sokel

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) has come to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. The Myth of Power and the Self brings together Walter Sokel's most significant essays on Kafka written over a period of thirty-one years, 1966-1997. This volume begins with a discussion of Sokel's 1966 pamphlet on Kafka and a summary of his 1964 book, Tragik und Ironie (Tragedy and Irony), which has never been translated into English, and includes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814326080
• ISBN13: 9780814326084
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural S
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"