Lambent Traces: Franz KafkaOn the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story The Judgment, which came out of him like a regular birth. This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home, for artistic fulfillment can be understood as a figure for Kafka's own search to reproduce the ecstasy of a single night. In Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka, the preeminent American