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Tycho Brahe's Path to God
Max Brod
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Description for Tycho Brahe's Path to God
Paperback. Concerns the relationship between the great Danish astronomer and the younger, intellectually superior Johannes Kepler. This book talks of a conflict that becomes an emblem of the struggle between a weakened tradition and a self-conscious modernity. It conveys the intimate, emotional reality of a seventeenth-century political conflict. Series: Avant-garde & Modernism Collection. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 556.
Though best known for his editing and posthumous publication of his friend Franz Kafka's writing, Max Brod was a major novelist in his own right. ""Tycho Brahe's Path to God"", widely considered his finest work and viewed by many as a small masterpiece, concerns the relationship between the great Danish astronomer and the younger, intellectually superior Johannes Kepler. Brod's representation of this complicated relation grew out of his acquaintance with the young Albert Einstein, reproduces his struggles with the Expressionist poet Franz Werfel, and strangely anticipates the most famous act Brod would ever perform: publishing Kafka's writings without his permission. ... Read more
Though best known for his editing and posthumous publication of his friend Franz Kafka's writing, Max Brod was a major novelist in his own right. ""Tycho Brahe's Path to God"", widely considered his finest work and viewed by many as a small masterpiece, concerns the relationship between the great Danish astronomer and the younger, intellectually superior Johannes Kepler. Brod's representation of this complicated relation grew out of his acquaintance with the young Albert Einstein, reproduces his struggles with the Expressionist poet Franz Werfel, and strangely anticipates the most famous act Brod would ever perform: publishing Kafka's writings without his permission. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Avant-garde & Modernism Collection
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810123816
SKU
V9780810123816
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About Max Brod
Max Brod (1884-1968) was a Czech-born, German-language novelist, and a lifelong friend of Franz Kafka, Peter Fenves is the Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Literature at Northwestern University. Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in what was then Austria-Hungary and before his books were banned by the Nazis his biographies, plays, stories, and his only novel Beware of Pity (Northwestern, ... Read more
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