Kafka's Other Trial

ISBN-13: 9780141195636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 144 str.

Elias Canetti

Opis

Offers insights into the creativity of Franz Kafka and the torment he suffered as a man, a lover, and a writer. This book explores the letter that Kafka wrote to his fiancee, from their first tender moments together to his final letter and his refusal to reconcile.

Recenzje

Perhaps the most revealing essay on Kafka ever published. At last Kafka is matched in thought and prose Times Literary Supplement

O autorze

Elias Canetti (1905-1994) is best known in the English-speaking world for Crowds and Power, Kafka's Other Trial and for the classic Auto-de-Fe. His family moved from Bulgaria to England, then Vienna, and he settled back in England in 1938. In 1981 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was cited by the Swedish Academy for his 'writings marked by a broad outlook and wealth of ideas and artistic power'.