Collected Stories (7 page)

Maurice Blanchot, ‘Reading Kafka’, ‘Kafka and Literature’, and ‘Kafka and the Demands of Literature’, all in
The Sirens’ Song: Selected Essays of Maurice Blanchot
, edited and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici and translated by Sacha Rabinovitch, Harvester, 1982.

Elias Canetti,
Kafka’s Other Trial
, tr. C. Middleton, Calder, 1974 (reprinted as the Introduction to the Penguin edition of the
Letters to Felice
).

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guatari,
Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature
, tr. Dana Polan, University of Minnesota Press, 1986.

Erich Heller, ‘The World of Franz Kafka’, in
The Disinherited Mind
, Penguin, 1951.

Milan Kundera, ‘In Saint Garta’s Shadow’,
Times Literary Supplement
, May 24, 1981.

Marthe Robert,
Franz Kafka’s Loneliness
, tr. Ralph Manheim, Faber, 1982.

I have dealt with aspects of Kafka’s life and work in ‘An Art for the Wilderness’, in
The Lessons of Modernism
, Macmillan, 1977, and in ‘A Bird Was in the Room’, in
Text and Voice: Essays 1981
–
1991
, Carcanet, 1992.

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