Necessary Angels

Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem

Robert Alter

    Preface

    1. Corresponding about Kafka

    2. On Not Knowing Hebrew

    3. The Power of the Text

    4. Revelation and Memory

    Notes

    Index

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Robert Alter is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous critical works, the most recent of which is the prize-winning book The Art of Biblical Narrative.