IV. The Lamentation of Josef K.: Conscience and Irony in Kafka’s Prozeß

Chapters in this book

1. I-VI I
2. Introduction: Eurydice Lost 1
3. I. The Modernist Turn 5
4. II. Viennese Baroque: Temporality and Allegory in Die Schlafwandler of Hermann Broch 27
5. III. The Cloud of Polonius: Rewriting Reality in Robert Musil’s Mann ohne Eigenschaften 57
6. IV. The Lamentation of Josef K.: Conscience and Irony in Kafka’s Prozeß 94
7. V. In the Crystal Garden: The Replenishment of Art and the Ecology of Man in Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus 135
8. VI. Epilogue: The Quixotic Word 176
9. Bibliography 187