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Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"One of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Colm Tóibín" Reiner Stach worked extensively on the definitive edition of Kafka's collected works before embarking on this three-volume biography. The third volume, Kafka: The Years of Insight (Princeton), covering Kafka's final years, is also available. The first volume, covering Kafka's childhood and youth, is forthcoming.
This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography answers that question with more facts, detail, and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883-1924). It tells the story of the years from his birth in Prague to the beginning of his professional and literary career in 1910, taking the reader...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2014 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize" "Finalist for the 2013 National Jewish Book Award in History, Jewish Book Council" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014" "One of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Colm Tóibín" "Longlisted for the 2014 PEN Translation Award, Pen American Center" Reiner Stach worked extensively on the definitive edition of Kafka's collected works before embarking on this three-volume...
Author
Publisher
I.R. Dee
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In Kafka in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Kafka's life and ideas, and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand his place in the world. The book also includes selections from Kafka's writings; a list of his chief works in English translation; a chronology of Kafka's life and times; and recommended reading for those who wish to push further.
Author
Publisher
Granta Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Endless Flight travels with Roth from his childhood in the town of Brody on the eastern edge of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to an unsettled life spent roaming Europe between the wars, including spells in Vienna, Paris and Berlin. His decline mirrored the collapse of civilized Europe: in his last peripatetic decade, he opposed Nazism in exile from Germany, his wife succumbed to schizophrenia and he died an alcoholic on the eve of WWII. Exploring the...
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This bold and sharply funny new look at Kafka is told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style and minimalist illustrations. Full of fascinating details and witty, absurdist illustrations, it's a delightful tribute to one of the world's great writers. Franz Kafka not only wrote prose, he was also passionate about drawing: at one time, he even said it satisfied him more than anything else. In this graphic biography, acclaimed artist...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the -- town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity. Growing up after World War I and the collapse of the empire, Rezzori lived in a twilit world suspended between the formalities of the old nineteenth-century order which had shaped his aristocratic...
14) R. Crumb's Kafka
Author
Publisher
Ibooks
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Combines illustrated biographical details with a visual adaptation of some of the Czech writer's works in a volume that includes graphic novel renditions of The judgment, The trial, The castle, A hunger artist, and The metamorphosis.
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