Kafka’s Drawings: Introduction

Introducing Kafka (1993), "has been so widely over-interpreted and pigeon-holed" as Kafka. 1 The claim is hardly new.Back in 1944, Hannah Arendt was the first to highlight the massive amount of "misleading" scholarship published on Kafka. 2 Two decades later, Susan Sontag lamented that Kafka's oeuvre had been "subjected to a mass ravishment by [multiple] armies of interpreters.