Lambent traces: Franz Kafka

1. In the circle of "the judgment"

2. The trial: the guilt of an unredeemed literary promise

Segue I: On cultural immortality

3. Medial interventions in The trial or, res in media

4. Allotria and excreta in "In the penal colony"

Segue II: Death and the medium

5. Nietzsche, Kafka, and literary paternity

6. Something to do with the truth; Kafka's later stories

7. "A faith like a guillotine"; Kafka on skepticism

8. Kafka and the dialect of minor literature

9. Adorno's "notes on Kafka"; A critical reconstruction

10. On translation mistakes, with special attention to Kafka' in Amerika

11. The trouble with cultural studies.