Kafka and Pinter

RAYMOND ARMSTRONG was born in Belfast in 1959. He has a BA (Hons) in combined humanities from the Ulster Polytechnic and a PhD in modern literature from the University of Ulster. Previously employed as a lecturer in English at the University of Ulster (1992-95), he now writes and teaches on a freelance basis. This is his first book.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Descriptions of a Struggle ('The Judgement' and 'The Metamorphosis') Return to a Father ( The Homecoming ) More Strange Than a Stranger ( Family Voices ) The Final Blasphemy ( Moonlight ) Notes an References Works Cited Index

'Armstrong, who [writes with flair, eloquence, and panache,] has read widely, frequently citing from Kafka's prose, letters, and diaries, as well as from many of Pinter's plays...Armstrong's ability to play his wide-ranging knowledge of comparative literature...Armstrong's book is most valuable...in offering new insights into the prose of the German writer and in presenting a new way of approaching three plays that were written in three distinct periods of Pinter's life.' - Gene A. Plunka, University of Memphis