Research Catalog

Title

The Kafka problem / edited by Angel Flores.

Publication

• New York : New Directions, [1946]
• ©1946

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Flores, Angel, 1900-1992
• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

xii, 468 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles; 24 cm

Subject

• Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 > Criticism and interpretation
• Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 > Bibliography
• Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
• 1900-1999
• Authors, Czech > 20th century > Criticism and interpretation
• Authors, Czech
• Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

• Bibliographies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Literary criticism.
• Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1946.
• Dust jackets (Binding) – New York – United States – 20th century.

Note

• At head of title: Edited by Angel Flores.
• "An anthology of criticism about Franz Kafka by Auden [and 34 others]"--Page facing title page.
• "New Directions" -- title page.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-463).

Indexed In (note)

• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' grey cloth; lacks dust jacket.

Contents

• Introduction / Angel Flores -- The man. Biographical note / Kate Flores ; Recollections / John Urzidil [and others] -- The writer. The human voyage / Max Lerner ; K.'s quest / W.H. Auden ; Truth for truth's sake / H.E. Jacob ; Kosmos Kafka / Austin Warren ; The objective depiction of absurdity / Claude-Edmonde Magny ; Kafka and Dostoyevsky / Renato Poggioli ; Kafka and Rex Warner / George Woodcock -- Exegesis and commentary. "Give ti up!" / Heinz Politzer ; "The metamorphosis" / Paul L. Landsberg ; "Amerika" and Charles Dickens / Rudolf Vašata ; "The penal colony" / Austin Warren ; "The trial" / Alberto Spaini ; "The trial" and the theology of crisis / John Kelly ; "Blumfeld, and elderly bachelor" / Leinhard Bergel ; "The castle." The homeless stranger / Max Brod ; A note on "The castle" / Denis Saurat ; The castle of despair / Daniel-Rops ; The three novels / R.O.C. Winkler ; "The burrow" / Leinhard Bergel ; The diaries and letters / Ernst Weiss.
• Theory. Escape from father / Frederick J. Hoffman ; Social awareness / Rudolf Fuchs ; Hope and absurdity / Albert Camus ; Kierkegaard and Kafka / Jean Wahl ; The bird and the cage. The oak and the rock / John Urzidil ; The tragedy of faithlessness / Hans Joachim Schoeps ; The bakruptcy of faith / Edwin Berry Burgum ; Faith and vocation / D.S. Savage ; The frozen sea. The fundamental revolution / Egon Vietta ; Intuition / Ezequiel Martínez Estrada ; The negative capability / Wladimir Weidlé ; The economy of chaos / T. Weiss -- The endless labyrinth / Bernard Groethuysen -- Kafka's critics. Max Brod and Herbert Tauber / Lienhard Bergel ; The cabalists / Charles Neider -- Bibliography / Angel Flores.

Call Number

D-10 6046

LCCN

46011973

OCLC

372412

Title

The Kafka problem / edited by Angel Flores.

Publisher

New York : New Directions, [1946]

Copyright Date

©1946

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Physical Medium

8vo. rdabf

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-463).

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 15

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-881 bound in publishers' grey cloth; lacks dust jacket. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-881 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Flores, Angel, 1900-1992, editor, writer of introduction.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Other Form:

Online version: Flores, Angel, 1900-1994. Kafka problem. New York, New Directions, [©1946] (OCoLC)654538165

Research Call Number

D-10 6046

Berg Coll 22-881