SOURCE: “Max Brod: Unambo,” in Turn-of-the-Century Vienna and Its Legacy: Essays in Honor of Donald G. Daviau, Jeffrey B. Berlin, Jorun B. Johns, Richard H. Lawson, eds., Edition Atelier, 1993, pp. 425-41.

In the following essay, Pazi suggests that the novel Unambo represents a shift in Brod's approach to philosophical problems.

Again and again, in talking about the writers of the famous Prague circle, scholars have made pointed reference to the polemic substrata of the literary works of its members, explaining these as the product of that city's unique atmosphere of spiritual and intellectual restlessness. As Max Brod and others of the writers of the Prague circle again and again recalled: in Prague people polemicized not only individually, but three peoples also polemicized against each other … the Czechs, who were the majority, the Germans as a minority and within the German camp the Jewish minority. Brod himself was perhaps...