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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-101400041899

ISBN-139781400041893

eBay Product ID (ePID)30899094

Product Key Features

Original LanguageItalian

Book TitleK.

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicEuropean / German, European / General, General

GenreLiterary Criticism

AuthorRoberto Calasso

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-059622

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"For such a writer [as Kafka], Calasso is the ideal critic." The New Yorker "No one could bring more intelligence and cultural range to a fresh encounter with Kafka [than] the erudite and sophisticated Calasso. . . . His prose is a marvel, andK.makes for an exhilarating adventure." Frederick Crews,The New York Review of Books "Engaging. . . . As good an account of the strangeness of Kafka's world and the reason for its bizarre coherence as anyone has offered." The New Republic "Translucent and revelatory. . . . It's a measure of Calasso's accomplishment that his readings feel familiar, as though his erudition were inside us. . . . His tone, while epic, is also welcoming." The New York Times Book Review From the Trade Paperback edition., "For such a writer [as Kafka], Calasso is the ideal critic." The New Yorker "No one could bring more intelligence and cultural range to a fresh encounter with Kafka [than] the erudite and sophisticated Calasso. . . . His prose is a marvel, and K. makes for an exhilarating adventure." Frederick Crews, The New York Review of Books "Engaging. . . . As good an account of the strangeness of Kafka's world and the reason for its bizarre coherence as anyone has offered." The New Republic "Translucent and revelatory. . . . It's a measure of Calasso's accomplishment that his readings feel familiar, as though his erudition were inside us. . . . His tone, while epic, is also welcoming." The New York Times Book Review From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dewey Decimal833/.912

SynopsisFrom 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: 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 characters in the history of the novel, and to determine who, in the end, K is. The culmination of Calasso's lifelong fascination with Kafka's work, K. is a book of remarkable literary importance. Book jacket.

LC Classification NumberPT2621.A26Z564513