THE ZURAU APHORISMS.

KAFKA, Franz. With an Introduction and Afterword by, CALASSO, Roberto. Translated from the German by, HOFMANN, Michael. Roberto Calasso's Commentary Translated from the Italian by, BROCK, Geoffrey.

ISBN 10: 1846550092 / ISBN 13: 9781846550096

Published by London, Harvill Secker, 2006., 2006

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First edition, small 8vo.,pp. x,138, hardcover, gilt; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly soiled. Seller Inventory # 38895

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE ZURAU APHORISMS.

Publisher: London, Harvill Secker, 2006.

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Franz Kafka spent eight months at his sister's house in Zürau between September 1917 and April 1918, enduring the onset of tuberculosis. Illness paradoxically set him free to write, in a series of philosophical fragments, his settling of accounts with life, marriage, his family, guilt and man's condition. These aphorisms have appeared with minor revisions in various posthumous works since his death in1924. By chance, Roberto Calasso rediscovered Kafka's two original notebooks in Oxford's Bodleian Library.The notebooks, freshly translated and laid out as Kafka intended, are a distillation of Kafka at his most powerful and enigmatic. This lost jewel provides the reader with a fresh perspective on the work of a genius.