THE ZURAU APHORISMS.

KAFKA, Franz. With an Introduction and Afterword by, CALASSO, Roberto. Translated from the German by, HOFMANN, Michael. Roberto Calasso's Commentary Translated from the Italian by, BROCK, Geoffrey.

ISBN 10: 1846550092 / ISBN 13: 9781846550096

Editore: London, Harvill Secker, 2006., 2006

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First edition, small 8vo.,pp. x,138, hardcover, gilt; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly soiled.

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• Titolo: THE ZURAU APHORISMS.
• Editore: London, Harvill Secker, 2006.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1846550092
• ISBN 13: 9781846550096
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Edizione: prima edizione
• Condizione: Near Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY
  • Philosophy

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Riassunto

Franz Kafka spent eight months at his sister's house in Zürau between September 1917 and April 1918, enduring the onset of tuberculosis. Illness paradoxically set him free to write, in a series of philosophical fragments, his settling of accounts with life, marriage, his family, guilt and man's condition. These aphorisms have appeared with minor revisions in various posthumous works since his death in1924. By chance, Roberto Calasso rediscovered Kafka's two original notebooks in Oxford's Bodleian Library. The notebooks, freshly translated and laid out as Kafka intended, are a distillation of Kafka at his most powerful and enigmatic. This lost jewel provides the reader with a fresh perspective on the work of a genius.

Informazioni sull?autore

Born in Florence, Roberto Calasso lives in Milan, where he is publisher of Adelphi. He is the author amongst other titles of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, which was the winner of the Prix Veillon and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, Ka, and K.
Michael Hofmann is a poet and critic, and the translator of many German and Austrian authors, including Elias Canetti, Ernst Junger, Wolfgang Koeppen, Thomas Bernhard and Joseph Roth.
Geoffrey Brock received the PEN Center USA Translation Award and the MLA's Lois Roth Award for his translation of Cesare Pavese's Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950. He is also the translator of Roberto Calasso's K.