A life of the nineteenth-century German writer and composer most famous for inspiring The Nutcrac...

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

This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on t...

'I very soon had an opportunity to interpret Dora's nervous coughing as the outcome of a fantasiz...

Doctor Faustus

'All his powers were in decline; the only thing growing stronger in him was the conviction that a...

'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: 'I lov...

'Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air--this fresh, light atmosphere that was ...

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

Evariste-Désiré de Parny, though largely forgotten now, was well known in the nineteenth century ...

Focusing on Kafka's sense of Jewish identity and knowledge of Judaism, Robertson elucidates the s...

This book is an erudite literary study of the uneasy position of the Jews in Germany and Austria ...