An accessible, comprehensive introduction to the work, life and times of one of the twentieth century's most important writers.

Preface; 1. Life; 2. Contexts; 3. Works; 4. Scholarship and adaptations; Guide to further reading; Index.

Carolin Duttlinger is University Lecturer in German at the University of Oxford and Ockenden Fellow in German at Wadham College Oxford. She is the author of Kafka and Photography (2007) and the editor, with Ben Morgan and Anthony Phelan, of Walter Benjamins anthropologisches Denken (2012).