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Kafka
Nicholas Murray
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Description for Kafka
Paperback. * First general biography in UK for twenty years of one of the defining writers of the 20th century - Franz Kafka. Num Pages: 448 pages, Integrated: 16, int b/w. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 310.
This gripping biography of the great Czech novelist, diarist and short story writer chronicles Kafka's entire (if tragically curtailed) life (1883-1924), but it focuses upon the writer's relationship to his father and his inheritance as a member of the Jewish mercantile bourgeoisie in Prague. Born into a German-speaking Jewish family, Kafka was a subject of the Austro-Hungarian empire until 1919 yet through his work he is one of the most modern of writers. While previous works have concentrated on Kafka and his women, Nicholas Murray will concentrate on his extraordinary relationship with his father which found its most eloquent literary ... Read more
This gripping biography of the great Czech novelist, diarist and short story writer chronicles Kafka's entire (if tragically curtailed) life (1883-1924), but it focuses upon the writer's relationship to his father and his inheritance as a member of the Jewish mercantile bourgeoisie in Prague. Born into a German-speaking Jewish family, Kafka was a subject of the Austro-Hungarian empire until 1919 yet through his work he is one of the most modern of writers. While previous works have concentrated on Kafka and his women, Nicholas Murray will concentrate on his extraordinary relationship with his father which found its most eloquent literary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Time Warner Books Uk
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349115931
SKU
V9780349115931
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About Nicholas Murray
Nicholas Murray is the acclaimed biographer of Victorian poet and critic MATTHEW ARNOLD (Hodder), ANDREW MARVELL and ALDOUS HUXLEY.
Reviews for Kafka
Formidably cogent and clear-eyed
William Boyd
[An] admirable and conscientious biography.
LITERARY REVIEW
Nicholas Murray's KAFKA restores the great writer to the human world, not just of relationships, but of actual societies, thus delivering his masterpieces from appropriation by theological and philosophical exegetes.
TLS
Nicholas Murray does what all decent biographers should do: leaves ... Read more
William Boyd
[An] admirable and conscientious biography.
LITERARY REVIEW
Nicholas Murray's KAFKA restores the great writer to the human world, not just of relationships, but of actual societies, thus delivering his masterpieces from appropriation by theological and philosophical exegetes.
TLS
Nicholas Murray does what all decent biographers should do: leaves ... Read more