“Kafka’s survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon: ‘With their posterior legs they were still glued to their father’s Jewishness and with their wavering anterior legs they found no new ground.’ There is a sense in which Kafka’s Jewish question (‘What have I in common with Jews?’) has become everybody’s question, Jewish alienation the template for all our doubts. What is Muslimness? What is femaleness? What is Polishness? These days we all find our anterior legs flailing before us. We’re all insects, all Ungeziefer, now.” —Zadie Smith, bestselling author of White Teeth and On Beauty

- Language : English
- ISBN: 978-0805210576
- Author: Franz Kafka
- Page Quality: Printed on 80 GSM Premium Quality Paper
- Page Color: Creamy Color Pages for Easy Reading
- Book Cover: Paperback
- Genres: Novel, Literature
- Publisher : Schocken (November 14, 1995)
- NB: Cover may change due to edition
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