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Conversations with Kafka
Gustav Janouch
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Description for Conversations with Kafka
Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 666.
Gustav Janouch met Franz Kafka, the celebrated author of The Metamorphosis, as a seventeen-year-old fledgling poet. As Francine Prose notes in her wonderful preface, “they fell into the habit of taking long strolls through the city, strolls on which Kafka seems to have said many amazing, incisive, literary, and per- things to his companion and interlocutor, the teenage Boswell of Prague. Crossing a windswept square, apropos of something or other, Kafka tells Janouch, ‘Life is infinitely great and profound as the immensity of the stars above us. One can only look at it through the narrow keyhole of one’s personal ... Read more
Gustav Janouch met Franz Kafka, the celebrated author of The Metamorphosis, as a seventeen-year-old fledgling poet. As Francine Prose notes in her wonderful preface, “they fell into the habit of taking long strolls through the city, strolls on which Kafka seems to have said many amazing, incisive, literary, and per- things to his companion and interlocutor, the teenage Boswell of Prague. Crossing a windswept square, apropos of something or other, Kafka tells Janouch, ‘Life is infinitely great and profound as the immensity of the stars above us. One can only look at it through the narrow keyhole of one’s personal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811219501
SKU
V9780811219501
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About Gustav Janouch
Gustav Janouch (1903–1968) was a young poet whose father worked at the same insurance company as Kafka. A certain amount of controversy has been aroused by his Conversations with Kafka: some have been skeptical that any human being can talk the way Kafka does in this book, but both Max Brod and Dora Diamant considered it authentic. Born in Brooklyn, ... Read more
Reviews for Conversations with Kafka
"Stunning."
Leonard Michaels "This remarkable book, itself the result of a miraculous discovery of material believed lost, is one of the most exciting works - fiction, nonfiction, poetry - I remember having read."
Joyce Carol Oates "Kafka is for me one of the last, and therefore perhaps one of the greatest, because closest to us, of mankind's religious ... Read more
Leonard Michaels "This remarkable book, itself the result of a miraculous discovery of material believed lost, is one of the most exciting works - fiction, nonfiction, poetry - I remember having read."
Joyce Carol Oates "Kafka is for me one of the last, and therefore perhaps one of the greatest, because closest to us, of mankind's religious ... Read more