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Kafka's Prague (Paperback)
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Kafka's Prague (Paperback)
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Loot Price R262
Discovery Miles 2 620
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Nearly 100 years after Franz Kafka's death, his works continue to
intrigue and haunt us. Even for those who are only fleetingly
acquainted with his unfinished novels, or his stories, diaries, and
letters, `Kafkaesque' has become a byword for the menacing,
unfathomable absurdity of modern existence and bureaucracy. Yet for
all the universal significance of his fiction, Kafka's writing
remains inextricably bound up with his life and work in Prague,
where he spent every one of his 40 years. Klaus Wagenbach's account
of Kafka's life in the city is a meticulously researched insight
into the author's family background, his education and employment,
his attitude toward the town of his birth, his literary influences,
and his relationships with women. The result is a fascinating
portrait of the 20th century's most enigmatic writer and the city
that provided him with so much inspiration; W.G. Sebald recognised
that `literary and life experience overlap' in Kafka's works, and
the same is true of this book.
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