Beskrivelse
The author seeks to refute the predominant allegorical and religious interpretations of Kafka’s writings and instead emphasizes that Kafka’s guilt and anxiety were rooted in reality and that he wrote as a Jew and in German rather than as a Christian metaphysic or in Czech. Quotations from the broad range of Kafka criticism are well integrated into the analysis. Spann offers as the basic inspiration for Kafka’s works the author’s problematic existence and describes his genre as “inner” biography which uses different metaphors and “abstractions not revealed.”
