Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle

Stanley Corngold is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of nine books, including, most recently, Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine and Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic. He has edited 11 books, including the Norton Critical Edition of Kafka’s Selected Stories (ed. and trans., with preface, notes and critical apparatus) and the Modern Library edition of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (ed. and trans., with introduction, notes, and critical materials).