A new selection of Franz Kafka's shorter fiction and nonfiction work, selected and with a preface by Book of Numbers author Joshua Cohen. "Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who's standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point." --Joshua Cohen, from his foreword to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, the minor works that are actually major. Joshua Cohen has produced a frame that refuses distinctions between what is a story, a letter, a workplace memo, and a diary entry, also including popular favorites like The Bucket Rider, The Penal Colony, and The Burrow. Here we see Kafka's preoccupations in writing about animals, messiah variations, food, and exercise, each in his signature style. Cohen's selection emphasizes the stately structure of utterly coherent logic within an utterly incoherent and illogical world, showing how Kafka harnessed the humblest grammar to metamorphic power, until the predominant effect ceases to be the presence of an unreliable narrator but the absence of the universe's only reliable narrator--God.
Sobre o autor(a)
Kafka, Franz
Franz Kafka (Praga, Império Austro-Húngaro, atual República Tcheca, 3 de julho de 1883 — Klosterneuburg, República Austríaca, atual Áustria, 3 de junho de 1924) foi um escritor de língua alemã, autor de romances e contos, considerado pelos críticos como um dos escritores mais influentes do século XX. A maior parte de sua obra, como A Metamorfose, O Processo e O Castelo, está repleta de temas e arquétipos de alienação e brutalidade física e psicológica, conflito entre pais e filhos, personagens com missões aterrorizantes, labirintos burocráticos e transformações místicas. |
| ISBN | 9780374538941 |
| Autor(a) | Kafka, Franz |
| Editora | Picador |
| Ano de edição | 2022 |
| Páginas | 320 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
| Dimensões | 18,80 X 12,50 |