Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt (Jewish Lives) - Tapa blanda

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Friedländer, Saul

 
9780300219722: Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt (Jewish Lives)
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ISBN 10: 0300219725 ISBN 13: 9780300219722
Editorial: Yale University Press, 2016

Sinopsis

A highly original and engaging appraisal of Kafka’s life, work, legacy, and thought

Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence―in his many letters, in his extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating book investigates some of the sources of Kafka’s personal anguish and its complex reflections in his imaginary world.

In his query, Saul Friedländer probes major aspects of Kafka’s life (family, Judaism, love and sex, writing, illness, and despair) that until now have been skewed by posthumous censorship. Contrary to Kafka’s dying request that all his papers be burned, Max Brod, Kafka’s closest friend and literary executor, edited and published the author’s novels and other works soon after his death in 1924. Friedländer shows that, when reinserted in Kafka’s letters and diaries, deleted segments lift the mask of “sainthood” frequently attached to the writer and thus restore previously hidden aspects of his individuality.

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Saul Friedländer is a renowned historian of the Holocaust and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History and Club 39 Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies at UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.

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Editorial
Yale University Press
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0300219725
ISBN 13 
9780300219722
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Número de páginas
183
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9780300136616: Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt (Jewish Lives)

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ISBN 10:  0300136617 ISBN 13:  9780300136616
Editorial: Yale University Press, 2013
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