Franz Kafka's Outsider Jurisprudence

Abstract

was the rage, proclaimed literary critic Anatole Broyard (1993) in his memoir of Greenwich Village during the 1950s. But perhaps Broyard was mistaken to speak in the past tense, considering that Kafka is more popular than ever. Over the last decade, an international collection of scholars has produced new translations of Kafka's writings (Harmon, p. xii), and Kafka has emerged as an important cultural icon. For example, underground artist Robert Crumb published an illustrated account of Kafka's life (Mairowitz and Crumb 2000), and Kafka was the subject of two feature films and an Oscar-winning short feature (Soderbergh 1992; Jones 1993; Capaldi 1995). More recently, theatrical versions of The Metamorphosis were staged in major cities (Christiansen 2000), and avant-garde composer Philip