Introducing Kafka

Mairowitz, David and Crumb, Robert

ISBN 10: 1840461225 / ISBN 13: 9781840461220

Verlag: Totem, 1997

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9217

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Introducing Kafka
• Verlag: Totem
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1840461225
• ISBN-13: 9781840461220
• Einband: Soft Cover
• Zustand: Near Fine

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"What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself". Nothing could better express the essence of Franz Kafka, a man described by his friends as living behind a "glass wall". Kafka wrote in the tradition of the great Yiddish storytellers, whose stock-in-trade was bizarre fantasy, tainted with hilarity and self-abasement. What he brought to this tradition was an almost unbearably expanded consciousness. Alienated from his roots, his family, his surroundings and primarily from his own body, Kafka created a unique literary language in which to hide away, transforming himself into a cockroach, an ape, a dog, a mole or a circus artiste who starves himself to death in front of admiring crowds.