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The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka

✍ Scribed by Franz Kafka

Book ID: 115248053
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Weight: 957 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780691205922

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✦ Synopsis

A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature --featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka's acclaimed biographer
In 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zürau aphorisms, after the Bohemian village in which he composed them. Among the most mysterious of Kafka's writings, they explore philosophical questions about truth, good and evil, and the spiritual and sensory world. This is the first annotated, bilingual volume of these extraordinary writings, which provide great insight into Kafka's mind. Edited, introduced, and with commentaries by preeminent Kafka biographer and authority Reiner Stach, and freshly translated by Shelley Frisch, this beautiful volume presents each aphorism on its own page in English and the original German, with accessible and enlightening notes on facing pages.
The most complex of Kafka's writings, the aphorisms merge literary and analytical thinking and are radical in...

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