{"product_id":"2026200012821-secondhand-conversations-with-kafka","title":"Conversations With Kafka","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to sit across from one of literature's greatest enigmas and simply talk? Gustav Janouch's Conversations with Kafka answers that question with remarkable intimacy, chronicling a series of personal exchanges between the young Janouch and Franz Kafka during the early 1920s in Prague. As a teenager whose father worked alongside Kafka at the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute, Janouch gained extraordinary access to the reclusive author, recording Kafka's candid reflections on literature, life, suffering, modernity, and his own tortured creative process. The result is an irreplaceable primary document that illuminates the private mind of a writer who published little in his lifetime yet reshaped the entire trajectory of Western literature.\n\nTranslated from the German by Goronwy Rees and introduced by Hugh Haughton, this edition presents Janouch's memoir with scholarly care, situating it within the broader context of Kafka's biography and literary legacy. The conversations reveal a man at once self-deprecating and visionary, acutely aware of the alienation and absurdity that would come to define the very adjective bearing his name. Janouch's portrait is not hagiography — it is something rarer and more valuable: a human record of genius in conversation with the ordinary world. For anyone drawn to the labyrinthine corridors of Kafka's imagination, this volume raises a disquieting question — how much of what Kafka said in private was itself a kind of parable?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203262652635,"sku":"2026200012821-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/302cab29-4019-40f8-bb8f-6a0f9defa758.png?v=1788146771","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012821-secondhand-conversations-with-kafka","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}