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Kafka: A Very Short Introduction

By (author) Ritchie Robertson,

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In this Very Short Introduction, Ritchie Robertson provides the newcomer with an up-to-date and accessible examination of this fascinating author. Beginning with an examination of Kafka’s life, he then goes on to discuss some of the major themes that emerge in Kafka’s work, using his short story Metamorphosis as a recurring example.

SKU: 9780192804556

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ISBN: 9780192804556

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 160

Dimensions: 11.1 × 1 × 17.5 cm

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Description

In this Very Short Introduction, Ritchie Robertson provides the newcomer with an up-to-date and accessible examination of this fascinating author. Beginning with an examination of Kafka’s life, he then goes on to discuss some of the major themes that emerge in Kafka’s work, using his short story Metamorphosis as a recurring example.

Additional information

  • Paperback / softback | 160 pages
  • 11.1 × 1 × 17.5 cm | 119
  • 28 October 2004
  • Oxford University Press
  • United Kingdom

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About the author

Ritchie Robertson

4 Published Books

Ritchie Robertson is a Professor of German at Oxford University and a Fellow of St John's College. He has published books on Kafka, Heine, and Thomas Mann, as well as The Jewish Question in German Literature (OUP, 1999). He has translated several eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German authors into English for the Oxford World Classics and Penguin Classics series