Nicholas Murray - Kafka
| Schrijver: | Nicholas Murray |
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| Titel: | Kafka |
| ISBN: | 9780300106312 |
| Uitgever: | Yale University Press |
| Bijzonderheden: | Goed, 2004, Hardcover, 440p |
| Prijs: | € 15,00 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 3,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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The definitive biography of the representative writer of our age Although Franz Kafka (1883-1924) completed only a small number of works in his lifetime, perhaps no other author has had a greater influence on twentieth-century consciousness. This engrossing biography of the Czech novelist and short-story writer emphasizes the cultural and historical contexts of his fiction and focuses for the first time on his complex relationship with his father. Nicholas Murray paints a picture of Kafka's German-speaking Jewish family and the Prague mercantile bourgeoisie to which they belonged. He describes Kafka's demanding professional career, his ill health, and the constantly receding prospects of a marriage he craved. He analyzes Kafka's poor relationship with his father, Hermann, which found its most eloquent expression in Kafka's story \"The Judgement,\" about a father who condemns his son to death by drowning. And he asserts that the unsettling flavor of Kafka's books--stories suffused with guilt and frustration--derives from his sense of living in a mysteriously antagonistic world, of being a criminal without having knowingly committed a crime. Compelling and empathetic, this book sheds new light on a man of unique genius and on his enigmatic works.
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