K. by Roberto Calasso - ISBN: 9780241399439
Paperback
Unravel Kafka’s enigmas: dreams, allegories, or the everyday, revealed.

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    21 July 2020

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Summary

A singular journey through the visionary world of Kafka and its captivating mysteries, now in Penguin Modern Classics

What are Kafka’s stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when?

In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique vision, imagination, and intellectual acumen, Calasso attempts to enter the flow, the tortuous movement,…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241399439
ISBN-10:0241399432
Author:Roberto Calasso, Geoffrey Brock
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:21 July 2020
Weight:246g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 18mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
About The Author

Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso was born in Florence in 1941. An author and publisher, he began working at Adelphi Edizioni from its founding in 1962 and continued as director for fifty years. The Book of All Books is the tenth part of a series that began with The Ruin of Kasch and includes the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony as well as Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, La Folie Baudelaire, Ardor, The Celestial Hunter and The Unnamable Present. He died in Milan in 2021.

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