Kafka
Nicholas Murray
Kafka / Nicholas Murray - New Haven : Yale University Press , 2004 - 440 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Prague -- Felice -- Milena -- Dora.
Nicholas Murray paints a picture of Kafka's German-speaking Jewish family and the Prague mercantile bourgeoisie to which they belonged. He describes Kafka's demanding professional career, his ill health, and the constantly receding prospects of a marriage he craved. He analyzes Kafka's poor relationship with his father, Hermann, which found its most eloquent expression in Kafka's story "The Judgement," about a father who condemns his son to death by drowning. And he asserts that the unsettling flavor of Kafka's books--stories suffused with guilt and frustration--derives from his sense of living in a mysteriously antagonistic world, of being a criminal without having knowingly committed a crime. This book sheds new light on a man of unique genius and on his enigmatic works.
English
9780300106312
Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)
Novelists---Biography---Austrian---20th century
PS3571.P4 / G47 2000
92 KAF
Kafka / Nicholas Murray - New Haven : Yale University Press , 2004 - 440 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Prague -- Felice -- Milena -- Dora.
Nicholas Murray paints a picture of Kafka's German-speaking Jewish family and the Prague mercantile bourgeoisie to which they belonged. He describes Kafka's demanding professional career, his ill health, and the constantly receding prospects of a marriage he craved. He analyzes Kafka's poor relationship with his father, Hermann, which found its most eloquent expression in Kafka's story "The Judgement," about a father who condemns his son to death by drowning. And he asserts that the unsettling flavor of Kafka's books--stories suffused with guilt and frustration--derives from his sense of living in a mysteriously antagonistic world, of being a criminal without having knowingly committed a crime. This book sheds new light on a man of unique genius and on his enigmatic works.
English
9780300106312
Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)
Novelists---Biography---Austrian---20th century
PS3571.P4 / G47 2000
92 KAF
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