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- catalog abstract ""In Kafka's writing, Albert Camus tells us, we travel "to the limits of human thought." And in this book, the world's leading Kafka authority conducts us to the deepest reaches of Kafka's own troubled psyche, to reveal the inner workings of the man who gave his name to a central facet of modern experience, the Kafkaesque. Klaus Wagenbach, who wrote the first major critical biography of Kafka, draws upon a wealth of new and recent information to produce a concise but finely nuanced portrait of the author, an ideal introduction to this quintessential figure of modernity." "With extensive reference to Kafka's extraordinary letters and diaries, Wagenbach shows us the author of Metamorphosis and The Trial perpetually caught between the irresistible attractions of the world and his ruthless desire for solitude and isolation. It was this tension, Wagenbach tells us, that gave Kafka's writing its uncanny quality and that haunted his intense, unresolved relationships with women. And it was in this tension that both his misery and mastery inhered, making his one of the most painfully powerful voices of the experience of the twentieth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Franz Kafka. English".
- catalog contributor b12706293.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""In Kafka's writing, Albert Camus tells us, we travel "to the limits of human thought." And in this book, the world's leading Kafka authority conducts us to the deepest reaches of Kafka's own troubled psyche, to reveal the inner workings of the man who gave his name to a central facet of modern experience, the Kafkaesque. Klaus Wagenbach, who wrote the first major critical biography of Kafka, draws upon a wealth of new and recent information to produce a concise but finely nuanced portrait of the author, an ideal introduction to this quintessential figure of modernity." "With extensive reference to Kafka's extraordinary letters and diaries, Wagenbach shows us the author of Metamorphosis and The Trial perpetually caught between the irresistible attractions of the world and his ruthless desire for solitude and isolation. It was this tension, Wagenbach tells us, that gave Kafka's writing its uncanny quality and that haunted his intense, unresolved relationships with women. And it was in this tension that both his misery and mastery inhered, making his one of the most painfully powerful voices of the experience of the twentieth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-169) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction / Ritchie Robertson -- Fame--too late for the author -- The son of a shopkeeper, lost in Prague -- What does a boy learn at an Imperial and Royal Secondary School? -- University, society and language in the capital of Bohemia -- 'Description of a Struggle': the insurance official, his job, his plans and his journeys -- The only way to write! -- Life or literature? Kafka's engagements and The Trial -- The wound -- A naked man among the clothed -- Map of Prague.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 176 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Kafka.".
- catalog identifier "0674011384 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Kafka.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng ger".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Kafka.".
- catalog subject "833/.912 21".
- catalog subject "Authors, Austrian 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.".
- catalog subject "PT2621.A26 Z98213 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Ritchie Robertson -- Fame--too late for the author -- The son of a shopkeeper, lost in Prague -- What does a boy learn at an Imperial and Royal Secondary School? -- University, society and language in the capital of Bohemia -- 'Description of a Struggle': the insurance official, his job, his plans and his journeys -- The only way to write! -- Life or literature? Kafka's engagements and The Trial -- The wound -- A naked man among the clothed -- Map of Prague.".
- catalog title "Franz Kafka. English".
- catalog title "Kafka / Klaus Wagenbach ; translated by Ewald Osers ; introduced by Ritchie Robertson.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".