Franz Kafka
Author(s): Jeremy Adler
The name of Franz Kafka is synonymous with a nightmare vision of the modern world in which the individual is in a perpetual state of struggle. This book contains an illustrated biography of Kafka, his friends, family - including his demonic father who called his son an "insect" - and influences.
General Information
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- : pengui
- : pengui
- : 0.244
- : 29 November 2001
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Jeremy Adler
- : Paperback
- : 833.912
- : 176
- : 80 b&w and 20 colour illustrations, references, chronology, bibliography
More About The Product
Jeremy Adler is Professor of German and Head of Department at King's College London. He has written for the Times, Guardian, Independent, New York Times and TLS.
A Prague childhood; the artist as a young man; at the worker's accident insurance; the making of a writer; the breakthrough; the great war; the final rupture; the last earthly frontier.