1. Franz Kafka

2. Prague

3. Prague: The Old City

4. The Judgment The Sons Punishments

5. Father-son struggles James Joyce: Ulysses Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses

6. Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis Oedipus complex Repression

7. Harold Bloom The Anxiety of Influence

8. Novels The Trial The Castle Amerika

9. Die Verwandlung The Transformation The Transfiguration The Transsubstantiation

10. Samsa Kafka In Czech sám = alone + jsem = I am

11. ungeheures Ungeziefer enormous bug gigantic insect monstrous vermin

12. “It occurred to me … that [the artist] might want to draw the insect itself. Please, not that — anything but that! The insect itself cannot be drawn. It cannot even be shown in the distance.”

14. Aristotle Complication Dénouement