The Myth of Power and the Self brings together Walter Sokel's most significant essays on Kafka written over a period of thirty-one years, 1966-1997.
Walter H. Sokel is Commonwealth Emeritus Professor of German and English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Writer in Extremis: Expressionism in Twentieth-Century German Literature (Stanford University Press, 1959), Franz Kafka: Tragik und Ironie (Langen-Muller, 1964), Franz Kafka: Columbia Essays on Modern Writers (Columbia University Press, 1966), and Prelude to the Absurd: An Anthology of German Expressionist Drama (Doubleday/Anchor Books, 1963).