This volume also contains Kafka's letters, entries in Kafka's diaries and 10 critical essays.
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I first read this edition in a summer workshop for AP teachers at Carnegie Mellon in 1987. It worked for me then, and works for me now. I have used it the last 2 years in a public school International Baccalaureate course. Corngold's introduction, extensive endnotes, letters by Kafka and others, and selections from criticism are a great resource in helping students understand not only the various meanings one can derive from the novel itself, but also in helping them having in one place different ways of approaching a novel; that is, from various critical angles (biographical, psychlogical, historical, etc.), from viewing primary documents and, of course, head on. What a world Kafka creates. Who cares what it means, in the end. But this edition is helpful in giving kids their first solid clobber of explication. I also use Peter Kuper's comic novel (search for it here) to add one more perspective, though I have to say, Kuper's interpretation is easily my least favorite. A bit over the top on the grostesqueries, and not enough of Kafka's unspoken but powerful energy. I'm sure there are other critical editions which are fine too. Try them as well.
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