: Gilman explores how prevailing psychoanalytic theories and medical views of the time—particularly regarding hypochondria and tuberculosis—influenced Kafka’s self-perception.
: The biography examines how being a Central European Jew in a predominantly non-Jewish society dictated an "uneasy fate," leading Kafka to use his diaries, letters, and fiction as tools for identity construction. Reshaping Experience into Fiction Franz Kafka (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives)
: Gilman argues that works like In the Penal Colony and The Trial can be read as immediate reactions to major contemporary events, such as the Dreyfus Affair . : Gilman explores how prevailing psychoanalytic theories and