Description

Kafka scholars will find Ruth Tie­fenbrun’s remarkably original thesis provocative and perhaps even contro­versial, but they will not be able to ignore it.It could well invalidate much previous Kafka criticism.

A student of modern literature, and trained in psychology, Ruth Tiefenbrun provides a new reading based on a unique psychological interpretation of Kafka as a homosexual whose works constitute an autobiographical confes­sion. Her book “decodes” Kafka’s secret words for his condition and thus provides a rationale for hitherto unex­plained predicaments in which Kafka’s major protagonists, both human and animal, find themselves.

Well researched and brilliantly ar­gued, this highly original work makes a significant contribution to modern psychological studies of literature.

About the Author

Ruth Tiefenbrun lives in New York in retirement, after thirty-three years of high school teaching. Since 1963 she has lectured on twentieth-century literature.