Kafka
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A masterwork of literary biography and criticism, Pietro Citati's Kafka presents an intimate and luminous portrait of Franz Kafka, one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic and influential writers. Citati chronicles Kafka's inner life with remarkable depth, tracing the anxieties, obsessions, and visionary imagination that gave rise to such towering works as The Trial, The Castle, and The Metamorphosis. Written with the elegance and passion of a fellow literary artist, the biography argues that Kafka's writing was inseparable from his tormented existence — his fraught relationships, his ambivalence toward his Jewish heritage, and his lifelong struggle with illness and self-doubt. Citati illuminates the paradoxes at the heart of Kafka's genius, illustrating how a man paralyzed by fear managed to construct fictional worlds of terrifying and universal power. The result is a biography that reads with the intensity of great literature itself, indispensable for anyone seeking to understand the man behind the myth.
Author: Pietro Citati
Format: Hardback
Published: 1990, Secker & Warburg
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A masterwork of literary biography and criticism, Pietro Citati's Kafka presents an intimate and luminous portrait of Franz Kafka, one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic and influential writers. Citati chronicles Kafka's inner life with remarkable depth, tracing the anxieties, obsessions, and visionary imagination that gave rise to such towering works as The Trial, The Castle, and The Metamorphosis. Written with the elegance and passion of a fellow literary artist, the biography argues that Kafka's writing was inseparable from his tormented existence — his fraught relationships, his ambivalence toward his Jewish heritage, and his lifelong struggle with illness and self-doubt. Citati illuminates the paradoxes at the heart of Kafka's genius, illustrating how a man paralyzed by fear managed to construct fictional worlds of terrifying and universal power. The result is a biography that reads with the intensity of great literature itself, indispensable for anyone seeking to understand the man behind the myth.