Franz Kafka by Erich Heller

Franz Kafka

by Erich Heller

edited by Frank Kermode

The Viking Press, 1974
ISBN 0670019879
Paperback

Condition: Very Good
a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, ex-lib with stamps and stickers to endpapers, stickers to covers (see photographs)

“”In Kafka,” Erich Heller writes, ‘we have the modern mind… self-sufficient, intelligent, ironical, yet a mind living in sin.’  Kafka has deeply influenced not only twentieth century literature, but also our very perception of twentieth-century life.  Erich Heller offers a challenging account of his enigmatic work, with its combination of paradox and terror, of unknown fears and structured mystery.  He examines how these qualities come to us through the medium of a controlled and utterly expressive prose.”