Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine adds an original critical
framework to the work begun by Stanley Corngold and Benno Wagner in
their monumental collection Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
(2008). It is widely acknowledged that Kafka's daytime occupation
as a specialist in industrial accident insurance contributed in a
significant way to his fiction.
Corngold and Wagner frame Kafka's writings as cultural events, each
work reflecting the economic and cultural discourses of his epoch.
In pursuing Kafka's avowed interest in the theory and practice of
insurance, the authors view the two systems of his literary
worlds--the official and the personal--as a "bundling" together of
the various cultural accidents of Kafka's time. The work of two of
the leading scholars of the single most influential writer of
literary modernity, Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine
constitutes a breathtakingly original advance in the study of both
the more famous and less well-known works of this enigmatic master.
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