Andrew Boelcskevy based this course on “Kafka and His World,” which he taught in the German program of the Modern Languages Department at UMass Boston. However, his abiding interest in Kafka goes back to his area of specialization in graduate school, modern Austrian literature. In that context, he soon became familiar with the cultural background and the literary achievements of the Prague writers (most of them Jewish) who wrote in German and of whom Kafka was the one to gain world-wide renown.

1 Course: Kafka's Fun-House Mirror: Five Reflections