The Kafka Page

Ever since first reading Kafka I've been on the lookout for authors who resembled him. I've now written a book which explores his influence on British and Irish writers from the late 1930s to the present day: Affinities between Franz Kafka and British and Irish Writers: Uneasy Dreams.

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This isn't yet another attempt to interpret Kafka’s work; one more book to add to the thousands of monographs and papers that make up the 'Kafka industry'. It focuses instead on writers considered to have been influenced by Kafka. Specifically, it offers detailed accounts of Kafkan elements in novels by Rex Warner, Anna Kavan, Samuel Beckett, James Kelman, Kazuo Ishiguro and W. G. Sebald. There are briefer studies of Edward Upward, Grahame Greene, Ruthven Todd, William Sansom, Henry Green, Flann O’Brien, John Banville, Alasdair Gray, Iain Banks, J. G. Ballard, China Miéville, Iris Murdoch, William Golding, David Wheldon, Ian McEwan and Ali Smith.

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I have tried to write a book that is scholarly and well-referenced, but that avoids the convoluted jargon of some literary criticism.

 

Affinities is published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing on 1 January 2026, either as a hardback or and EBook. 

See https://cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-0364-6022-8/.

Also available on Amazon.

 

​For synopsis, click here

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For corrections and amendments to the published book (when available) click here.

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