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Kafka / Nicholas Murray

By:

Nicholas Murray

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press , 2004Description: 440 p. : illus. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780300106312

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 KAF

LOC classification:

PS3571.P4 G47 2000

Contents:

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 KAF (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		052710

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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.

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