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ISBN: 9781400076123

ISBN-10: 1400076129

ISBN-13: 9781400076123

Edition: 2006

Authors: Roberto Calasso, Geoffrey Brock

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From the internationally acclaimed author of "The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony "comes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interest-a virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka. What are Kafka's fictions about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Countless answers have been offered, but the essential mystery remains intact. Setting out on his own exploration, Roberto Calasso enters the flow, the tortuous movement, the physiology of Kafka's work to discover why K. and Josef K.-the protagonists of "The Castle "and "The Trial"-are so radically different from any other character in the history of the novel, and to determine who, in the end, is…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.29" wide x 7.97" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Roberto Calasso is the author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, as well as a novel and many literary and philosophical essays. He is Director of the publishing house Adelphi Edizioni in Milan.

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