Contents
Translator’s Introduction
Introduction: Chains of Official Paper
Chapter 1. “Don’t forget Kropotkin!”: Kafka and Antiauthoritarian Socialism
Chapter 2. Tyrannies, from Patriarchal Autocracy to Impersonal Apparatuses
Chapter 3. Kafka’s The Trial: From the Jew as Pariah to Joseph K. as Universal Victim
Chapter 4. The Religion of Liberty and the Parable Before the Law (1915)
Chapter 5. The Castle: Bureaucratic Despotism and Voluntary Servitude
Chapter 6. Anecdotal Digression: Was Kafka a Realist?
Chapter 7. The “Kafkaesque” Situation
Notes
Index