Kafka's Other Trial
$23.77
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2012
Summary
A compelling examination of Kafka’s life and a rare insight into his art, new to Penguin Modern Classics.
In July 1914, Franz Kafka’s fiancée Felice broke off their engagement in a humiliating public tribunal, surrounded by her friends and family, and the other woman with whom Kafka had recently fallen in love. Broken and bereft, Kafka – at the height of his writing powers – turned the experience into his masterpiece, The Trial, where his lovers became the faceless prosecutor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141195636 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141195630 |
| Author: | Elias Canetti |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 114g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 129mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Perhaps the most revealing essay on Kafka ever published. At last Kafka is matched in thought and prose
Perhaps the most revealing essay on Kafka ever published. At last Kafka is matched in thought and prose * Times Literary Supplement *
About The Author
Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti (1905-1994) is best known for Crowds and Power, Kafka’s Other Trial, and Auto-de-Fe. His family moved from Bulgaria to England, then Vienna, and he settled back in England in 1938. In 1981 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was cited by the Swedish Academy for his ‘writings marked by a broad outlook and wealth of ideas and artistic power’.
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