Excavating Kafka. - HAWES, JAMES
KORTE INHOUD
Kafka's features, and that dreaded word, Kafkaesque, are known to millions who have never read serious literature. Generations of academics and critics have maintained the image of Franz Kafka as a tortured seer whose works defy interpretation. In Excavating Kafka James Hawes reveals the truth that lies beneath the image of a middle-European Nostradamus with a typographically irresistible name. The real Franz Kafka was no angst-ridden paranoid but a well-groomed young man-about-town who frequented brothels, had regular sex with a penniless-but-pretty girl and subscribed to upmarket pornography (published by the very man who published Kafka's first stories). Excavating Kafka debunks a number of key facets of the Kafka-Myth, including the idea that Kafka was the archetypal genius neglected in his lifetime; that he was stuck in a dead-end job and struggling to find time to write; that he was tormented by fear of sex; that he had a uniquely terrible, domineering father who had no understanding of his son's needs;...
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Original publisher's blue paper-covered boards, silver lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: [xij], 244pp., illustrations, acknowledgements, notes & references, general bibliography, index. Very fine copy - as new . London, Quercus. 2008 [Auteur: HAWES, JAMES] [Jaar: 2008] [Titel: Excavating Kafka.]
