Offers a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist.

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) is one of the most influential of modern authors, whose darkly fascinating novels and stories - where themes such as power, punishment

Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.

Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understo