The Animal in the Synagogue explores Franz Kafka\'s sense of being a Jew in the modern world and its literary and linguistic ramifications.
That part is based on a close reading of Kafka\'s correspondence with his Czech lover, Milena Jesenska, and on a.
The first is organized around the theme of Kafka\'s complex and often self-derogatory understanding and assessment of his own Jewishness and of the place the modern Jew occupies in "the abyss of the world" (Martin Buber).
It falls into two parts.
The Animal in the Synagogue explores Franz Kafka\'s sense of being a Jew in the modern world and its literary and linguistic ramifications