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Letters to Ottla and the Family

Franz Kafka
Letters to Ottla and the Family Book PDF

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780804150743

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Letters to Ottla and the Family by Franz Kafka Pdf

Written by Kafka between 1909 and 1924, these letters offer a unique insight into the workings of the Kafka family, their relationship with the Prague Jewish community, and Kafka's own feelings about his parents and siblings. A gracious but shy woman, and a silent rebel against the bourgeois society in which she lived, Ottla Kafka was the sibling to whom Kafka felt closest. He had a special affection for her simplicity, her integrity, her ability to listen, and her pride in his work. Ottla was deported to Theresienstadt during World War II, and volunteered to accompany a transport of children to Auschwitz in 1943. She did not survive the war, but her husband and daughters did, and preserved her brother's letters to her. They were published in the original German in 1974, and in English in 1982. "Kafka's touching letters to his sister, when she was a child and as a young married woman, are beautifully simple, tender, and fresh. In them one sees the side of his nature that was not estranged. It is lucky they have been preserved." —V. S. Pritchett, The New York Review of Books

Letters to Ottla and the Family

Franz Kafka
Letters to Ottla and the Family Book PDF

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798737879587

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Letters to Ottla and the Family by Franz Kafka Pdf

Franz Kafka's correspondence with his sister and others, spanning from 1909 till 1924.

Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors

Franz Kafka
Letters to Friends Family and Editors Book PDF

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780804150781

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Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors by Franz Kafka Pdf

"These magnificent letters, meticulously set up and annotated, show us aspects of Kafka that were only hinted at in earlier collections and help us trace his development from unhappy young law student and insurance administrator to novelist and short-story writer of originality and genius." --Publishers Weekly "When we turn from Kafka's books to his letters we have 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. His candor is of the kind that flies alongside him in the air. He was a marvelous letter writer." --V.S. Pritchett, The New York Review of Books "These letters are like messages from the underground, from the dark side of the moon, presenting aspects of Kafka that would have died with his friends. We meet alternately Kafka the artist, friend, son, father figure, marriage counselor, literary critic, insurance official. . . . A full portrait, and a significant contribution to Kafka scholarship." --Smithsonian Magazine "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

Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century

Derek Sayer
Prague Capital of the Twentieth Century Book PDF

Author : Derek Sayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400865444

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Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century by Derek Sayer Pdf

The story of modernity told through a cultural history of twentieth-century Prague Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Derek Sayer argues that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the much darker twentieth century. Ranging across twentieth-century Prague's astonishingly vibrant and always surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis. Located at the crossroads of struggles between democratic, communist, and fascist visions of the modern world, twentieth-century Prague witnessed revolutions and invasions, national liberation and ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust, show trials, and snuffed-out dreams of "socialism with a human face." Yet between the wars, when Prague was the capital of Europe's most easterly parliamentary democracy, it was also a hotbed of artistic and architectural modernism, and a center of surrealism second only to Paris. Focusing on these years, Sayer explores Prague's spectacular modern buildings, monuments, paintings, books, films, operas, exhibitions, and much more. A place where the utopian fantasies of the century repeatedly unraveled, Prague was tailor-made for surrealist André Breton's "black humor," and Sayer discusses the way the city produced unrivaled connoisseurs of grim comedy, from Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek to Milan Kundera and Václav Havel. A masterful and unforgettable account of a city where an idling flaneur could just as easily be a secret policeman, this book vividly shows why Prague can teach us so much about the twentieth century and what made us who we are.

A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia

Richard T. Gray,Ruth V. Gross,Rolf J. Goebel,Clayton Koelb
A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia Book PDF

Author : Richard T. Gray,Ruth V. Gross,Rolf J. Goebel,Clayton Koelb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313061424

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A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia by Richard T. Gray,Ruth V. Gross,Rolf J. Goebel,Clayton Koelb Pdf

Known for depicting alienation, frustration, and the victimization of the individual by impenetrable bureaucracies, Kafka's works have given rise to the term Kafkaesque. This encyclopedia details Kafka's life and writings. Included are more than 800 alphabetically arranged entries on his works, characters, family members and acquaintances, themes, and other topics. Most of the entries cite works for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.

Kafka: A Guide for the Perplexed

Clayton Koelb
Kafka A Guide for the Perplexed Book PDF

Author : Clayton Koelb
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826495808

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Kafka: A Guide for the Perplexed by Clayton Koelb Pdf

Student guide to Franz Kafka, focusing on giving guidance through the difficulties readers can encounter in studying his work.

Postcards from Absurdistan

Derek Sayer
Postcards from Absurdistan Book PDF

Author : Derek Sayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691239514

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Postcards from Absurdistan by Derek Sayer Pdf

A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy—with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorship Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural and political history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia’s artistically vibrant liberal democracy, to 1989, when the country’s socialist regime collapsed after more than four decades of communist dictatorship. Derek Sayer shows that Prague’s twentieth century, far from being a story of inexorable progress toward some “end of history,” whether fascist, communist, or democratic, was a tragicomedy of recurring nightmares played out in a land Czech dissidents dubbed Absurdistan. Situated in the eye of the storms that shaped the modern world, Prague holds up an unsettling mirror to the absurdities and dangers of our own times. In a brilliant narrative, Sayer weaves a vivid montage of the lives of individual Praguers—poets and politicians, architects and athletes, journalists and filmmakers, artists, musicians, and comedians—caught up in the crosscurrents of the turbulent half century following the Nazi invasion. This is the territory of the ideologist, the collaborator, the informer, the apparatchik, the dissident, the outsider, the torturer, and the refugee—not to mention the innocent bystander who is always looking the other way and Václav Havel’s greengrocer whose knowing complicity allows the show to go on. Over and over, Prague exposes modernity’s dreamworlds of progress as confections of kitsch. In a time when democracy is once again under global assault, Postcards from Absurdistan is an unforgettable portrait of a city that illuminates the predicaments of the modern world.

Franz Kafka

Sander L. Gilman
Franz Kafka Book PDF

Author : Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1861892543

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Franz Kafka by Sander L. Gilman Pdf

"This short and readable critical biography emphasizes the relationship between Franz Kafka's life and works as read through his culture and his understanding of his own 'body'. Kafka's writings, letters and diaries provide a window into his ongoing attempt to create an identity for himself in a world where being a Central European Jew dictated an uneasy fate. Sander L. Gilman stresses the image and role of the Jew in Kafka's world of the 'modern' and how Kafka responded to these attitudes, actions and stereotypes." "Gilman also looks at the impact of psychoanalysis on Kafka and his works. The book contains much material that elucidates how Kafka reshaped such experiences of the world in his literary texts. It examines the creation of the 'Kafka-myth' after his death, presenting material emerging from the subsequent eighty years, including work by such illustrious minds as Walter Benjamin and Ted Hughes."--BOOK JACKET.

Spinoza's Overcoat

Subhash Jaireth
Spinoza s Overcoat Book PDF

Author : Subhash Jaireth
Publisher : Transit Lounge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781925760491

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Spinoza's Overcoat by Subhash Jaireth Pdf

‘It starts to rain as I step out of my hotel ....’ So begins Subhash Jaireth's striking collection of essays on the writers, and their writing, that have enriched his own life. The works of Franz Kafka, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mikhail Bulgakov, Paul Celan, Hiromi Ito, Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and others ignite in him the urge to travel (both physically and in spirit), almost like a pilgrim, to the places where such writers were born or died or wrote. In each essay a new emotional plane is reached revealing enticing connections. As a novelist, poet, essayist and translator born into a multilingual environment, Jaireth truly understands the power of words across languages and their integral connections to life of the body and the spirit. Drawing on years of research, translation and travel Spinoza's Overcoat – and its illuminations of loss, mortality and the reverie of writing – will linger with readers. ‘Eloquent and original, Jaireth’s meditations on the lives-of-poets are full of astonishing details, tender connections and the magnificent melancholy of devotion to words. Encompassing matters of translation, love, mortality and homage, this is a rare model of what might be called “literary philosophy” and an utter joy and surprise for anyone interested in the reading and writing life …’ – GAIL JONES, author of The Death of Noah Glass Subhash Jaireth was born in India. Between 1969 and 1978 he spent nine years in Russia studying geology and Russian literature. In 1986 he migrated to Australia. He has published writing in Hindi, English and Russian and his novel After Love (Transit Lounge 2012) was published in Spain in 2018.

Franz Kafka and his Prague Contexts

Nekula, Marek
Franz Kafka and his Prague Contexts Book PDF

Author : Nekula, Marek
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788024629353

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Franz Kafka and his Prague Contexts by Nekula, Marek Pdf

Franz Kafka is by far the Prague author most widely read and admired internationally. However, his reception in Czechoslovakia, launched by the Liblice conference in 1963, has been conflicted. While rescuing Kafka from years of censorship and neglect, Czech critics of the 1960s “overwrote” his German and Jewish literary and cultural contexts in order to focus on his Czech cultural connections. Seeking to rediscover Kafka’s multiple backgrounds, in Franz Kafka and His Prague Contexts Marek Nekula focuses on Kafka’s Jewish social and literary networks in Prague, his German and Czech bilingualism, and his knowledge of Yiddish and Hebrew. Kafka’s bilingualism is discussed in the context of contemporary essentialist views of a writer’s organic language and identity. Nekula also pays particular attention to Kafka’s education, examining his studies of Czech language and literature as well as its role in his intellectual life. The book concludes by asking how Kafka read his urban environment, looking at the readings of Prague encoded in his fictional and nonfictional texts. ‘Nekula’s work has had a major impact on our understanding of Kafka’s relation to the complex social, cultural and linguistic environment of early twentieth‑century Prague. While little of this work has been available in English until now, the present volume translates many of his most important studies, and includes revisions and expansions appearing now for the first time. Nekula challenges stubborn clichés and opens important new perspectives: readers interested in questions relating to Kafka and Prague will find this an essential and richly rewarding book.’ – Peter Zusi, University College London ‘Marek Nekula’s important book originally situates Franz Kafka within his Pragueand Czech contexts. It critically examines numerous distortions that accompanied the reception of Kafka, starting with the central issue of Kafka’s languages(Kafka’s Czech, Prague German), and the ideological discourse surrounding the author in communist Czechoslovakia. Astute and carefully argued, Franz Kafka and his Prague Contexts offers new perspectives on the writings of the Prague author. This book will benefit readers in German and Slavic Studies, in Comparative Literature, and History of Ideas.’ – Veronika Tuckerová, Harvard University Marek Nekula připravil soubor studií o tom, jak Praha formovala Kafkovu osobnost a dílo. Kniha začíná kritickou diskuzí o problematickém přijímání Franze Kafky v Československu, které začalo na konferenci v Liblici v roce 1963. Zde byl Kafka zachráněn před cenzurou za cenu "přepsání" jeho německého a židovského literárního a kulturního kontextu s cílem vyzdvihnout český vliv na jeho tvorbu. Studie se zaměřují na židovské sociální a literární prostředí v Praze, Kafkovu německo-českou dvojjazyčnost a jeho znalost jidiš a hebrejštiny. Kafkův bilingvismus je probírán v kontextu současných esencialistických názorů na spisovatelův jazyk a identitu. Nekula také věnuje zvláštní pozornost Kafkovu vzdělání, zkoumá jeho studia českého jazyka a literatury, jakož i jeho českou četbu a její roli v jeho intelektuálním životě. Knihu uzavírá otázkou, jak Kafka „četl“ své městské prostředí.

Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Margaretta Jolly
Encyclopedia of Life Writing Book PDF

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136787447

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Encyclopedia of Life Writing by Margaretta Jolly Pdf

This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.

Kafka

Klaus Wagenbach
Kafka Book PDF

Author : Klaus Wagenbach
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674011384

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Kafka by Klaus Wagenbach Pdf

Using diaries and letters, Wagenbach offers an extensive biography on Kafka that explores the writer's inner turmoil and troubled psyche. 50 illustrations.

Franz Kafka in Context

Carolin Duttlinger
Franz Kafka in Context Book PDF

Author : Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107085497

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Franz Kafka in Context by Carolin Duttlinger Pdf

Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.

The Nightmare of Reason

Ernst Pawel
The Nightmare of Reason Book PDF

Author : Ernst Pawel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429933339

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The Nightmare of Reason by Ernst Pawel Pdf

A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world.

Hitler's Mentor: Dietrich Eckart, His Life, Times, & Milieu

Joseph Howard Tyson
Hitler s Mentor Dietrich Eckart His Life Times Milieu Book PDF

Author : Joseph Howard Tyson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780595616855

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Hitler's Mentor: Dietrich Eckart, His Life, Times, & Milieu by Joseph Howard Tyson Pdf

Early associates such as Rudolf Hess, Ernst Hanfstaengl, and Hermann Esser all claimed that Hitler revered alcoholic playwright Dietrich Eckart more than any other colleague. Eminent German historians Karl Dietrich Bracher, Werner Maser, Georg Franz-Willig, and Ernst Nolte have confirmed this assessment. Hitler not only dedicated Mein Kampf to Eckart, he hung his portrait in Munich's Brown House, placed a bust of him in the Reich Chancellery next to one of Bismarck, and named Berlin's 1936 Olympic stadium the Dietrich Ekcart Outdoor Theater. Yet British-American scholarship has virtually ignored "Nazism's Spiritual Father." J. H. Tyson weaves Eckart's biography into a colorful account of modern German history.