New essays by leading scholars on the most perplexing of modern writers, Franz Kafka.

Introduction: Kafka Begins - James RollestonCritical Editions I: The 1994 Paperback Edition - James RollestonCritical Editions II: Will the Real Franz Kafka Please Stand Up?Beyond Self-Assertion: A Life of Reading Kafka - Walter H. SokelKafka Before Kafka: The Early Stories - Judith RyanTradition and Betrayal in "Das Urteil" - Russell A. BermanKafka as Anti-Christian: "Das Urteil," "Die Verwandlung" and the Aphorisms - Ritchie RobertsonKafka's Aesthetics: A Primer: From the Fragments to the Novels - Henry SussmanMedial Allusions at the Ouset of Der Proceß; or, res in media - Stanley CorngoldKafka's Circus Turns: "Auf der Galerie" and "Erstes Leid" - Bianca TheisenKafka and Postcolonial Critique: Der Verschollene, - Rolf J. GoebelDisjunctive Signs: Semiotics, Aesthetics and Failed Mediation in "In der Strafkolonie" - Richard T. GrayHunting Kafka Out of Season: Enigmatics in the Short Fictions - Ruth V. GrossA Dream of Jewishness Denied: Kafka's Tumor and "Ein Landarzt" - Sander L. GilmanSurveying the Castle: Kafka's Colonial Visions - John ZilcoskyMaking Everything "A Little Uncanny": Kafka's Variants to Das Schloß and What They Can Tell Us About His Writing ProcessHis Writing Process - Mark HarmanKafka Imagines His Readers: The Rhetoric of "Josefine die Sängerin" and "Der Bau"