Letters to Friends, Family and Editors - Couverture souple

Kafka, Franz

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0714543152 ISBN 13 : 9780714543154

Editeur : Calder Publications Ltd

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“Kafka’s letters are precious for what they reveal of a literary genius’s insights into the predicaments of the modern artist, as well as for what they tell us of Kafka’s loves, loyalties, fears, guilt, and his floundering attempts to cope with the debilitating disease that blighted half his adult life . . . Fluently and gracefully translated, helpfully annotated with care and admirable concision, [they] afford us an inside view of a writer who, perhaps more than any other novelist or poet in our century, stands at the center of our culture.”
—Robert Alter, The New York Times Book Review

“A series of self-portraits desperate and courageous, always eager and warm in feeling; the self is lit by fantasy and, of course, by drollery. He was a marvelous letter writer.”
—V. S. Pritchett, The New York Review of Books

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This volume presents Kafka as son, brother, student, friend, lover, writer, critic, and revealing his fascination for life in all its complex, absurd and tragic manifestations. Though aware of the precariousness of letter-writing, Franz Kafka entrusted to letters many of his thoughts, impressions, experiences and expectations. These letters which follow Kafka s life from his student years through his experience as an insurance clerk to his final days, and explore his friendships with Max Brod, Feliz Weltsch and Oskar Baum confirm his place as one of the great letter-writers of the twentieth century.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Calder Publications Ltd
• ISBN 10: 0714543152
• ISBN 13: 9780714543154
• Reliure: Broché