...recommended by Stanley Corngold. Interview by Charles J. Styles at Five Books.
"Kafka was no Bartleby the Scrivener, no harmless office drudge. Rather, he was a brilliant innovator of social and legal reform in ‘the Manchester of the Empire’, which at the time of Kafka’s tenure, between 1908 and 1922, was one of the most highly developed industrial areas of Europe. Now, consider that Kafka’s stories allude to his culture with a fullness that is astonishing when one considers their economy of form."
See Kafka, "The Metamorphosis", Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 60
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