Kafka: A Life in Prague (Red Books) - Hardcover

Wagenbach, Klaus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1906598886 ISBN 13: 9781906598884

Publisher: Haus Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

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."

About this title

About the Author:

Klaus Wagenbach is the publisher of Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, one of Germany's leading independent publishing houses. The author of six books on Kafka, he is widely recognised as an authority on Kafka's life and work. His books include Kafka: A Biography of his Youth and Kafka's Prague.

Review:

Wonderful...Wagenbach is the doyen of Kafka scholars, and this is easily the best guide to the life and work: succinct, handsomely produced, and endlessly informative. -- Eric Ormsby "New York Sun" (06/30/2004)

About this edition

• Publisher: Haus Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1906598886
• ISBN 13: 9781906598884
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 171