Summary
This gripping biography of the great Czech novelist, diarist, and short story writer chronicles Kafka’s entire, if tragically curtailed, life (1883-1924). It focuses upon the writer’s relationship to his father and his inheritance as a member of the Jewish mercantile bourgeoisie in Prague.
Born into a German-speaking Jewish family, Kafka was a subject of the Austro-Hungarian empire until 1919, yet through his work, he is one of the most modern of writers. While previous works have con…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349115931 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349115931 |
| Author: | Nicholas Murray |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2005 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 32mm |
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[An] admirable and conscientious biography. - LITERARY REVIEW
Nicholas Murray’s KAFKA restores the great writer to the human world, not just of relationships, but of actual societies, thus delivering his masterpieces from appropriation by theological and philosophical exegetes. - TLSNicholas Murray does what all decent biographers should do: leaves the reader hungry to fo back to the haunting and permanently elusive work that makes the unhappy life so extraordinary. - SUNDAY TIMESKafka’s writing didn’t meet his inner demands for perfection…But when Murray quotes from him, you want to rush off and read more instantly. This makes KAFKA the best kind of literary biography. - INDEPENDENTAbout The Author
Nicholas Murray
Nicholas Murray is the acclaimed biographer of Victorian poet and critic Matthew Arnold (Hodder), Andrew Marvell, and Aldous Huxley.
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