Franz Kafka: The Jewish Patient.

From: The Nation | Date: November 20, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

FRANZ KAFKA: The Jewish Patient. By Sander Gilman. Routledge. 328 pp. $59.95. Paper $18.95

When I first encountered Franz Kafka, as a high school student in the mid-1950s, there was a real romance of Kafka in the air. People talked about him with hushed reverence then, as some sort of modern saint: His books were infernos--but sorry, no paradise, because in the modern world God Is Dead, haven't you noticed, stupid?--allegories of sin and grace, sublime but doomed quests for the Holy Grail. Allegory was the correct way to read him, because although his fiction was full of ...

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