This study explores Franz Kafka's fiction in terms of the author's innovative dream technique. Sigmund Freud's research into the unconscious life of dreams is employed to underpin a theory of dream composition in Kafka's oeuvre. The book aims to provide a unique analytical perspective on the author's narratives which will be of interest to academics working in the field of literature, psychology, philosophy and interdisciplinary studies. The book is also designed to appeal to a larger reading public, bearing in mind that "Kafkaesque" has become a household word due to the uncanny atmosphere of his tales. At the study's philosophical base, however, are the ideas of existentialist thought. These leave the way open for the dream features to be extrapolated into speculative metaphysical areas, thus offering the reader not only an exposition of the dream form of the fiction, but also forays into the realm of ideas.
Antony Johae PhD has taught at universities in the UK, Ghana, Tunisia and in Kuwait where he was Associate Professor. He retired in 2009. He has published thirty-one articles in international journals, eight chapters in collected essays, as well as two monographs. These include five essays on Franz Kafka in the Journal of the Kafka Society of America, one in Michigan Germanic Studies and another in The Explicator. He has also published articles and chapters on Fyodor Dostoevsky, notably a chapter in Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition, edited by George Pattison and Diane Thompson (2001) and, later reproduced in Harold Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (2004). Antony Johae has recently worked on Sigmund Freud's notion of the Uncanny in its application to Kafka's fiction. He is also carrying out further research into Dostoevsky's fictional departures into dream.
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