The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: a Biographical Essay (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head The acclaimed novelist and author of "About Schmidt" presents this new biography of Franz Kafka, one of Western literature's most iconic writers. 10 b&w illustrations.
Full description- Publisher: Atlas & Co
- Published: 01 June 2008
- Format: Hardback 208 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Literary | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
- ISBN 13: 9781934633069 ISBN 10: 1934633062
- Sales rank: 827,647
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Full description for The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head
A new biography of Western literature's most iconic writer, from the acclaimed novelist and author of "About Schmidt," Kafkaesque: the very word evokes tortuous bureaucracy, crushing self-doubt, and an almost unbearable inadequacy in the face of higher powers. After Kafka, it can be said, literature was not the same. In the few novels and short stories he left behind, he distilled the horrors of the new age. Kafka's is the voice of the outsider--that is, the voice of each one of us--at once defined by its affiliations and completely, utterly alone. The product of both a transitional age (the beginning of the 20th century) and a territory in flux (Czechoslovakia), Kafka spoke and wrote German in Czech territory. He was a Jew among Christians, a non-observant Jew among believers. Louis Begley, himself a multilingual exile and, like Kafka, a lawyer and writer, renders Kafka's life with sensitivity and insight. Begley's discussion of Kafka's masterpiece "The Trial," along with shorter works such as "The Metamorphosis," opens a window on a tormented soul, one of the most intriguing figures of the modern period.
