Franz KafkaIn Stanley Corngolds view, the themes and strategies of Kafkas fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his growing sense of its arbitrary character. Analyzing Kafkas work in light of "the necessity of form," which is also a merely formal necessity, Corngold uncovers the fundamental paradox of Kafkas art and life. The first section of the book shows how Kafkas rhetoric may be understood as the daring project of a man