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

A witty introduction to the mind of Goethe, in a new translation for the first time in 150 yea...

'In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.'Kafka published two coll...

'I loathe what I did, but what I loathe even more is your virtue.'Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest ...

Biennial volume of new and innovative essays on German Jewish Studies, featuring forum sections o...

Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) was recognized as Britain's most distinguished historian of ideas. Many o...

In the mid-1880s, the Realist author and Anglophile Theodor Fontane observed:nowhere is so much t...

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

'When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some ki...

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) is one of Germany's greatest writers. His agile mind and brilliant wit...

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