Problem of the Judgement: Eleven Approaches to Kafkas Story

by Ángel Flores (Editor), Franz Kafka (Subject), Charles Bernheimer (Contributor)

One of the most puzzling short stories in all literature, "The Judgment" (Das Urteil) is crucial to an understanding of Kafka's entire subsequent work; all of his themes are here in tantalizing miniature. The apparently simple text of the story opens this book as if in a challenge to interpretation; the eleven analyses which follow make for an exciting and illuminating controversy.

265 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1977