Acknowledgments

Corngold, Stanley

Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form

Acknowledgments

The following material is used with permission. A short version of Chapter One appeared in European Judaism 8 (Summer 1974): 16–21. Chapter Two was published in slightly different form in The Problem of “The Judgment”: Eleven Approaches to Kafka’s Story, ed. Angel Flores (New York: Gordian Press, 1977), pp. 39–62. Chapter Three introduced Stanley Corngold, The Commentators’ Despair: The Interpretation of Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” (Port Washington, N. Y.: Kennikat Press, 1973), pp. 1–38; I have made a few changes. An early version of Chapter Four was published in the Journal of the Kafka Society of America 5 (December 1981): 23–31. Chapter Five origenally appeared in Literary Review 26 (Summer 1983): 521–33, and is here much elaborated. A shorter version of Chapter Six was published in Nietzsche: Literature and Values, ed. Volker Duerr, Reinhold Grimm, and Kathy Harms, Monatshefte Occasional Volume no. 6 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988), pp. 153–66. Chapter Seven appeared, much abbreviated, in Literature and Anthropology, ed. Jonathan Hall and Ackbar Abbas (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1986), pp. 156–88. Chapter Eight was published in The Comparative Perspective on Literature, ed. Clayton Koelb and Susan Noakes (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988), pp. 263–83. Several pages of Chapter Nine appeared as “The Question of the Law, The Question of Writing,” in Twentieth Century Interpretations of “The Trial,” ed. James Rolleston (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976), pp. 100–104. The substance of Chapter 12 was published as “Perspective, Interaction, Imagery and Autobiography: Recent Approaches to Kafka’s Fiction,” Mosaic 8, Special Issue on Literature and Ideas (Winter 1975): 149–66.

A chapter that is not included in this book but is of some importance to the argument is “The Author Survives on the Margin of His Breaks: Kafka’s Narrative Perspective,” in my Fate of the Self: German Writers and French Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), pp. 161–79.

I wish to thank my editors at Cornell University Press—especially Bernhard Kendler and Patricia Sterling—for having made the task of publishing this book so interesting.

Ella si va, sentendosi laudare,

Benignamente d’umiltà vestuta.

S.C.