Franz Kafka, Maker of Dreams

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.