Kafka in Prague

This seminar will engage some major prose compositions by the modernist Prague-born writer, Frank Kafka (1883–1924). We shall also engage some key works of criticism on Kafka by authors who are themselves thinker-writers of stature and interest; these will include Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Stanley Corngold, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Michael Löwy, J. Hillis Miller, Paul North, David Foster Wallace, Benno Wagner, and Slavoj Žižek. Furthermore, we shall also watch a 1962– film based on Kafka’s novel work, The Trial, by the American-born director Orson Welles (1915–85). We shall also visit the Franz Kafka Museum in Prague.