Kenneth Hughes (Editor)
Franz Kafka: An Anthology of Marxist Criticism.
University Press of New England, 1981. First edition. 0874512069 xxviii/290 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in dark gray cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book displays very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. 
"Probably no writer has more extensively and more deeply divided Marxist literary scholarship and criticism than Franz Kafka. Although Marxist appraisals of other modernists, such as Proust and Joyce, also sharply diverge, it is Kafka who in terms of sheer attention which has been paid to him and in terms of the substantive ideological debates which have crystallized around discussions of his works, has replaced Balzac and Tolstoy as the literary watershed of contemporary Marxist opinion...It is hoped that this anthology will give Kafka, a "permanent visa," and that Western Kafka critics will also no longer ignore the vigorous debate and the perceptions of their Eastern colleagues." - from the Introduction.
Marxist views of Kafka, widely known in Europe, have been strangely absent in the West. Since Kafka is popular worldwide, this collection of nineteen essays is especially welcome. Now available for the first time in English translation is major Marxist Kafka criticism from the USSR, West and East Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and France, as well as from the United States."