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22%OFFKlaus Wagenbach - Kafka - 9781906598884 - V9781906598884
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Kafka

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Description for Kafka Hardcover. A biography that provides a meticulously researched insight into the author's family background, his education and employment, his attitude to his native city, his literary influences, and his relationships with women. Series: Literary Traveller. Num Pages: 120 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1DVKC; 2ACG; BGL; DSBH; DSK; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 116 x 13. Weight in Grams: 216.
More than eight decades after his death, the works of Franz Kafka continue to intrigue and haunt us. Even for those with only a fleeting acquaintance with his unfinished novels, or his stories, diaries and letters, 'Kafkaesque' has become a byword for the menacing, unfathomable absurdity of modern existence. Yet for all the universal significance of his fiction, Kafka's writing remains inextricably bound up with his life and work in the Czech capital Prague, where he spent every one of his 40 years. Klaus Wagenbach's biography provides a meticulously researched insight into the author's family background, his education and employment, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus United Kingdom
Number of pages
120
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Series
Literary Traveller
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906598884
SKU
V9781906598884
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About Klaus Wagenbach
Klaus Wagenbach is a publisher and a leading authority on Kafka. He was the first German-speaking researcher to access the author's papers and other primary sources in Czechoslovakia and Israel. His books on Kafka include Kafka's Prague: A Travel Reader and Franz Kafka: The Early Years.

Reviews for Kafka
'These are useful additions to any thinking person's library... Klaus Wagenbach's volume on Kafka includes reproductions of Kafka's letters, original book covers and a well-drawn map of Prague showing the places mentioned in the text.'
Adam Lebor New Statesman

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