Some reflections on Kafka / Walter Benjamin -- The wall of secrecy : Kafka's Castle / Heinz Politzer -- Amerika : sinful innocence / Mark Spilka -- Art and dreams / Martin Greenberg -- "Up in the gallery" : incongruity and alienation / Peter Heller -- Notes on Kafka / Theodor W. Adorno -- Kafka's eternal present : narrative tense in "A country doctor" / Dorrit Cohn -- "The burrow," or how to escape from a maze / Heinrich Henel -- The castle / Erich Heller -- Parable as paradox in Kafka's stories / Alwin L. Baum -- Language and truth in the two worlds of Franz Kafka / Walter H. Sokel -- The trial : structure as mystery / David I. Grossvogel -- The Metamorphosis, Freud, and the chains of Odysseus / David Eggenschwiler -- More remote than the abyss / Laura Quinney.