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Is That Kafka? : 99 Finds
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Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds
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Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds
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ISBN 10: 0811221237 ISBN 13: 9780811221238
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Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds
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Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds
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Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds
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Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds
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Is That Kafka?: 99 Finds
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Add to basketBuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In the course of compiling his highly acclaimed three-volume biography of Kafka, while foraying to libraries and archives from Prague to Israel, Reiner Stach made one astounding discovery after another: unexpected photographs, inconsistencies in handwritten texts, excerpts from letters, and testimonies from Kafka's contemporaries that shed surprising light on his personality and his writing. Is that Kafka presents the crystal granules of the real Kafka: he couldn't lie, but he tried to cheat on his high-school exams; bitten by the fitness fad, he avidly followed the regime of a Danish exercise guru; he drew beautifully; he loved beer; he read biographies voraciously; he made the most beautiful presents, especially for children; odd things made him cry or made him furious; he adored slapstick. Every discovery by Stach turns on its head the stereotypical version of the tortured neurotic-and as each one chips away at the monolithic dark Kafka, the keynote, of all things, becomes laughter.
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Is That Kafka?: 99 Finds
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Add to basketCondition: New. Über den AutorReiner Stach, born in 1951 in Saxony, is the author of the definitive biography of Kafka. The first two volumes, published by Princeton University Press, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly.
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Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds Format: Hardcover
Published by WW Norton Publishers, 2016
ISBN 10: 0811221237 ISBN 13: 9780811221238
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Is That Kafka?: 99 Finds
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ISBN 10: 081122516X ISBN 13: 9780811225168
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Add to basketCondition: New. Über den AutorReiner Stach, born in 1951 in Saxony, is the author of the definitive biography of Kafka. The first two volumes, published by Princeton University Press, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly.
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Add to basketHard Cover.in dj. Condition: As New. Reiner Stach has written a three-volume literary biography of Franz Kafka, which I understand is now the leading Kafka biography. In the course of his research into Kafka's life, Stach assembled many tidbits that, as he writes, "display him in unexpected lights [and] allow us to hear rarely detected undertones and overtones." Stach presents these 99 tidbits as "Finds". Taken together, they humanize Kafka and demonstrate (in the words of his friend Georg Langer) that he was "an absolutely original person" and an "exceptional personality". The 99 Finds are an eclectic collection. They are presented in short pieces or vignettes, ranging from one to five pages. Many contain historical photographs or facsimiles of Kafka's handwriting or sketches. Most are based on an extract from Kafka's letters, diaries, or writings, or from the letters or memoirs of others. And for most, Stach provides brief explanation and context. Perhaps a few examples will be helpful. Find #9 is entitled "Kafka Drinks Beer". It contains about a dozen excerpts from letters and diaries relating to Kafka drinking beer and how, in the final weeks of his life, he became a "passionate drinker". Stach explains that in those last weeks, "because of his laryngeal tuberculosis, Kafka could only take tiny, painful swallows, and so he suffered from constant thirst." Relevant to Kafka's tuberculosis, another Find (#27) contains about a dozen excerpts relating to Kafka's somewhat skeptical but tolerant attitude towards the doctors who long labored to restore him to relative health. One Find deals with Kafka's occasional visits to brothels. It includes a touching photograph of Kafka and a wine bar waitress ("one of his unfortunate flings"). Stach writes, "For Kafka, as for most bourgeois men of his day, visiting prostitutes was more a hygienic problem than a moral one." Find #82 is a letter from a doctor to Kafka, asking him to explain "Metamorphosis", so that the doctor could in turn explain it to his family. A handful of Finds contain examples of Kafka's prose from letters or his notebooks; they all are of the same transcendent quality as his published works, and some display a whimsical humor not commonly associated with Kafka. The last Find is the obituary that Milena Jesenská (with whom Kafka had had a brief passionate affair) wrote for the Czech language newspaper in Prague two days after Kafka had died in a sanatorium outside Vienna. It is both insightful and very touching. The question "Is that Kafka?" comes from two other Finds, both of them photographs of crowd scenes in which it has been suggested, plausibly, that one of the blurry figures is Kafka. (One of the photographs is from an air show in northern Italy in 1909; the other of a political rally from 1920 in the South Tyrol, where Kafka was staying in an effort to alleviate his lung infection.) The book first appeared in German in 2012. Kurt Beals is denoted as the translator of this English edition. I assume that Beals is responsible for not only the translation of Stach's commentaries but also the numerous excerpts from Kafka's writings, which translations are superb.
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Is That Kafka?: 99 Finds Format: Paperback
Published by WW Norton Publishers, 2017
ISBN 10: 081122516X ISBN 13: 9780811225168
Language: English
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Add to basketCondition: acceptable. Fast Shipping - Used book in fair conditions - May contain writing, notes, highlighting, bends or folds. Text is readable, book is clean, pages and cover mostly intact. May show normal wear and tear. Item may be missing CD.
