Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life

James Hawes

ISBN 10: 0312376510 / ISBN 13: 9780312376512

Verlag: St. Martin's Press, 2008

Beschreibung

When it comes to literary legends many of us just let the scholars do the work and peruse the biographies when they hit the shelves; though mostly we depend on the trusted oral lore that is passed down. As with Franz Kafka, we have all been told upon the high-school reading of 'Metamorphosis' of the woes and terrible life life that Kafka led, which in turn inspired his dark strange writing; and back then that may have made sense. But the truth, as you will find in 'Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life,' is that what you know of Kafka, the man, is probably wrong. In this groundbreaking book by scholar James Hawes, readers will see the real force behind Kafka's works.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life
• Verlag: St. Martin's Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0312376510
• ISBN-13: 9780312376512
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Good
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Inhaltsangabe

Whimsically debunks popular myths attributed to the persona and work of Franz Kafka, in a portrait that describes the real-world circumstances surrounding his relationship with his father, his sexuality, and his writing career. 20,000 first printing.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James Hawes is a novelist and Kafka scholar with a Ph.D. in German literature. He is the author of A White Merc with Fins, White Powder, Green Light, and Speak for England. As an undergraduate at Oxford, Hawes was allowed---uniquely---to handle the original manuscript of Kafka's The Castle. He lives in Cardiff, Wales.