'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary ReviewThe Enlightenment...

Franz Kafka died in 1924, when he was not yet forty-one. During his life he published only seven ...

'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: 'I lov...

Doctor Faustus

A life of the nineteenth-century German writer and composer most famous for inspiring The Nutcrac...

This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on t...

»Nach wie vor bin ich der Meinung, daß sich die Literatur der deutschen landesflüchtigen Schrifts...

Thomas Mann's later short stories published between 1925 and 1953 explore his abiding interest in...

German literature from roughly 1750 to 1850 has a tradition of tragic drama unmatched by any othe...

In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: 'Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times.....

Kafka and Short Modernist Prose. Kafka und die kleine Prosa der Moderne

?[Mr. Robertson] is [a] splendid writer, astoundingly versed in European letters and gifted at vi...

Franz Kafka is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the last century. During his ...

A concise yet comprehensive critical biography of Friedrich Nietzsche.

'K. kept feeling that he had lost himself, or was further away in a strange land than anyone had ...

A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationa...

'Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anythin...

Kafka

Historical research has dispelled a number of myths surrounding World War I: whereas the outbreak...

'All his powers were in decline; the only thing growing stronger in him was the conviction that a...