Excavating Kafka
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vyprodáno |
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Internetová cena:
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183,00 Kč 
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Běžná cena:
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229,00 Kč |
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Zboží není skladem
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| Autor: |
James Hawes
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| Jazyk: |
anglicky |
| Vazba: |
měkká |
| Počet stran: |
272 |
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13,2 x 19,8 cm |
| ISBN/EAN: |
9781849161640 |
| Nakladatel: |
Quercus Publishing Plc |
| Rok vydání: |
2010 |
| Edice: |
Současná beletrie
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Kafka's features, and that dreaded word, Kafkaesque, are known to millions who have never read serious literature. Generations of academics and critics have maintained the image of Franz Kafka as a tortured seer whose works defy interpretation. In Excavating Kafka James Hawes reveals the truth that lies beneath the image of a middle-European Nostradamus with a typographically irresistible name. The real Franz Kafka was no angst-ridden paranoid but a well-groomed young man-about-town who frequented brothels, had regular sex with a penniless-but-pretty girl and subscribed to upmarket pornography (published by the very man who published Kafka's first stories). Excavating Kafka debunks a number of key facets of the Kafka-Myth, including the idea that Kafka was the archetypal genius neglected in his lifetime; that he was stuck in a dead-end job and struggling to find time to write; that he was tormented by fear of sex; that he had a uniquely terrible, domineering father who had no understanding of his son's needs; that his literature is mysterious and opaque; that he constructs fantasy-worlds in which innocent everymen live in fear of mysterious and totalitarian powers-that-be. Written with the panache of a supremely gifted comic writer, Excavating Kafka is an engaging and involving reassessment of a major figure of literary modernism that will be welcomed and enjoyed by students of Kafka and by general readers alike.
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