Franz Kafka (reaktion Books - Critical Lives) -

: Gilman argues that works like In the Penal Colony and The Trial can be read as immediate reactions to major contemporary events, such as the Dreyfus Affair .

: Gilman explores how prevailing psychoanalytic theories and medical views of the time—particularly regarding hypochondria and tuberculosis—influenced Kafka’s self-perception. Franz Kafka (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives)

A core argument in Gilman's Franz Kafka (Critical Lives) is that Kafka’s prose serves as a window into his ongoing struggle to define himself within a society that often viewed the Jewish body through a lens of stereotypes and "modern" illness. : Gilman argues that works like In the