He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka (riverrun editions)
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- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2020
Summary
‘Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who’s standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.’
Joshua Cohen, from his preface to HE: SHORTER WRITINGS OF FRANZ KAFKA
This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, the minor works that are actually major. Joshua Cohen has produced a frame that refuses distinctions between what is a story, a letter, a workplace memo and a diary entry…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787478213 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787478211 |
| Author: | Franz Kafka, Joshua Cohen |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 26mm |
| Series: | riverrun editions |
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About The Author
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. He ranks among the twentieth-century’s most acclaimed writers. His works evoke anxiety, alienation and uncertainty in a world that is largely unfeeling and unfamiliar. He bequeathed his main body of work to long-time friend Max Brod, asking for it to be burned unread. Brod disobeyed Kafka’s, whose work is now considered among the most original in Western literature.
Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. He has written novels (Moving Kings, Book of Numbers), short fiction (Four New Messages), and nonfiction for various publications. In 2017 he was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City.
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