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Kafka: a Biography Nicholas Murray 1st edition
Kafka: a Biography
Nicholas Murray
Although Franz Kafka (1883–1924) completed only a small number of works in his lifetime, perhaps no other author has had a greater influence on twentieth-century consciousness. This engrossing biography of the Czech novelist and short-story writer emphasizes the cultural and historical contexts of his fiction and focuses for the first time on his complex relationship with his father.
Nicholas Murray paints a picture of Kafka?s German-speaking Jewish family and the Prague mercantile bourgeoisie to which they belonged. He describes Kafka?s demanding professional career, his ill health, and the constantly receding prospects of a marriage he craved. He analyzes Kafka?s poor relationship with his father, Hermann, which found its most eloquent expression in Kafka?s story “The Judgement,? about a father who condemns his son to death by drowning. And he asserts that the unsettling flavor of Kafka?s books—stories suffused with guilt and frustration—derives from his sense of living in a mysteriously antagonistic world, of being a criminal without having knowingly committed a crime.
Compelling and empathetic, this book sheds new light on a man of unique genius and on his enigmatic works.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 10, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780300106312 |
| Publishers | Yale University Press |
| Pages | 440 |
| Dimensions | 170 × 240 × 30 mm · 807 g |
| Language | English |
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