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050	0	0	_aPS3571.P4 _bG47 2000
082	1		_a92 KAF _2
100	1		_aNicholas Murray
245	1	0	_aKafka _c/ Nicholas Murray
260			_aNew Haven _b: Yale University Press _c, 2004
300			_a440 p. _b: illus. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505	0	0	_aPrague -- Felice -- Milena -- Dora.
520			_aNicholas 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.
546			_aEnglish
600	1	4	_aKafka, Franz _d(1883-1924)
650		4	_aNovelists _z-Austrian _y-20th century _x-Biography
942			_cMO
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