'To The Castle and Back' documents the intimate final memoirs from the author/dissident-turned-politician who, along with Walesa and Gorbachev, will always be an icon of the magnificent, bloodless collapse of Soviet Bloc Communism.
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This is the paperback edition of the intimate final memoirs from the great dissident-turned-politician who, along with Walesa and Gorbachev, will always be an icon of the magnificent, bloodless collapse of Soviet Bloc Communism. As president first of Czechoslovakia and then of t…
Looks at such major aspects of the author's life as family, Judaism, love and sex, writing, illness, and despair, and argues that, when reinserted in Kafka's letters and diaries, deleted segments lift the mask of "sainthood" frequently attached to him. "Franz Kafka was the poet…
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A critical biography examining the life of the author considered to be a part of the modernism movement.
"Few writers have had as great an impact as Franz Kafka. Known for depicting alienation, frustration, and the victimization of the individual by impenetrable bureaucracies, his works have given rise to the term "Kafkaesque," which people use to describe similar situations in the…
In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fiancee Felice broke off their engagement in a humiliating public tribunal. In this short book, Elias Canetti explores each letter that Kafka wrote to Felice and offers insights into the torment he suffered as a man, a lover and a writer. (Publisher).
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"How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography answers that question with more facts, detail, and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the…