Excavating Kafka - Hardcover

Hawes, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847245447 ISBN 13: 9781847245441

Verlag: Quercus Publishing, 2008

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Críticas:

James Hawes has matured into a wonderful satirist...a comic novelist of considerable stature - Guardian

Comparisons with Evelyn Waugh are not misplaced - Sunday Telegraph

Highly entertaining...galloping, lucid prose. There's real enthusiasm here too...a witty anti-biography - Observer

Undeniably an exhilarating read. The heresy helps but so does Hawes's pacy, non-academic prose and his sharp eye for fascinating snippets of literary history - Daily Telegraph

A revelation and a scream, this wonderfully irreverent book ends up paying Kafka a greater compliment than that of the 'Kafka-myth', 5 stars - The Scotsman

... combination of zeal and cynicism is irresistible - Daily Telegraph.

Reseña del editor:

Kafka's features, and that dreaded word, Kafkaesque, are known to millions who have never read serious literature. Generations of academics and critics have maintained the image of Franz Kafka as a tortured seer whose works defy interpretation. In Excavating Kafka James Hawes reveals the truth that lies beneath the image of a middle-European Nostradamus with a typographically irresistible name. The real Franz Kafka was no angst-ridden paranoid but a well-groomed young man-about-town who frequented brothels, had regular sex with a penniless-but-pretty girl and subscribed to upmarket pornography (published by the very man who published Kafka's first stories). Excavating Kafka debunks a number of key facets of the Kafka-Myth, including the idea that Kafka was the archetypal genius neglected in his lifetime; that he was stuck in a dead-end job and struggling to find time to write; that he was tormented by fear of sex; that he had a uniquely terrible, domineering father who had no understanding of his son's needs; that his literature is mysterious and opaque; that he constructs fantasy-worlds in which innocent everymen live in fear of mysterious and totalitarian powers-that-be. Written with the panache of a supremely gifted comic writer, Excavating Kafka is an engaging and involving reassessment of a major figure of literary modernism that will be welcomed and enjoyed by students of Kafka and by general readers alike.

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• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1847245447
• ISBN 13: 9781847245441
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272