Conversations with Kafka (New Directions Paperbook)

Conversations with Kafka (New Directions Paperbook)

A literary gem â€“ a portrait from life of Franz Kafka â€“ now with an ardent preface by Francine Prose, avowed â€œfan of Janouchâ€™s odd and beautiful book.â€
Gustav Janouch met Franz Kafka, the celebrated author of The Metamorphosis, as a seventeen-year-old fledgling poet. As Francine Prose notes in her wonderful preface, â€œthey fell into the habit of taking long strolls through the city, strolls on which Kafka seems to have said many amazing, incisive, literary, and per- things to his companion and interlocutor, the teenage Boswell of Prague. Crossing a windswept square, apropos of something or other, Kafka tells Janouch, â€˜Life is infinitely great and profound as the immensity of the stars above us. One can only look at it through the narrow keyhole of oneâ€™s personal experience. But through it one perceives more than one can see. So above all one must keep the keyhole clean.â€™â€

They talk about writing (Kafkaâ€™s own, but also that of his favorite writers: Poe, Kleist, and Rimbaud, who â€œtransforms vowels into colorsâ€) as well as technology, film, crime, Darwinism, Chinese philosophy, carpentry, insomnia, street fights, Hindu scripture, art, suicide, and prayer. â€œPrayer,â€ Kafka notes, brings â€œits infinite radiance to bed in the frail little cradle of oneâ€™s own existence.â€
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780811219501
ReleaseDate 2012-01-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811219501

Country	USA
Brand	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780811219501
ReleaseDate	2012-01-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780811219501

Conversations with Kafka (New Directions Paperbook)

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