Klaus Wagenbach

Franz Kafka

Michael Krüger

Tintenfisch I.

TINTENFISCH.

Michael KRUEGER

Tintenfisch 1( -17, 19-26). Jahrbuch Für Literatur. Herausgegeben Von Michael Krüger und Klaus Wagenbach

Franz Kafka, whose cool detached prose and vivid,literary images of power and metamorphosis have,left a lasting influence on almost all of the,world's literatures, ever hardly left his home,city of Prague during his short life (1883-1924).,This travel book-cum-reader provides a journey,through both Kafka's reality and imagination,permitting the reader or traveller to experience,Kafka's milieu as he wrote such books as The,Trial and Metamorphosis. Includes 8 maps and,150 B & W photographs - contemporary and vintage.

A Travel Reader

Kafka's Prague

Franz Kafka.

ein Reiselesebuch

Kafkas Prag

Andrew Walker

Emma Crewe

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, his attitude to his native city, his literary influences, and his relationships with women. The result is a fascinating portrait of the 20th century's most enigmatic writer, in whose works, as W. G. Sebald recognised, "literary and life experience overlap."

A Life in Prague

Kafka

A biography of the Czech writer includes photographs of the people and places important to him during his life

Bilder aus seinem Leben

eine Biographie seiner Jugend, 1883-1912

Due passi per Praga insieme a Kafka

Darstellung von Leben und Werk des Dichters (1883-1924), mit zahlreichen Bilddokumenten.

Nearly one hundred years after Franz Kafka’s death, his works continue to intrigue and haunt us. Kafka is regarded as one of the most significant intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth century, and even for those who are only barely acquainted with his novels, stories, diaries, or letters, “Kafkaesque” has become a term synonymous with the menacing, unfathomable absurdity of modern existence and bureaucracy. While the significance of his fiction is wide-reaching, Kafka’s writing remains inextricably bound up with his life and work in a particular place: Prague. It is here that the author spent every one of his forty years. Drawing from a range of documents and historical materials, this is the first book specifically dedicated to the relationship between Kafka and Prague. Klaus Wagenbach’s account of Kafka’s life in the city is a meticulously researched insight into the author’s family background, his education and employment, his attitude toward the town of his birth, his literary influences, and his relationships with women. The result is a fascinating portrait of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic writer and the city that provided him with so much inspiration. W. G. Sebald recognized that “literary and life experience overlap” in Kafka’s works, and the same is true of this book.

Using diaries and letters, Wagenbach offers an extensive biography on Kafka that explores the writer's inner turmoil and troubled psyche. 50 illustrations.

Klaus Wagenbach

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