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The Zurau Aphorisms
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The Zurau Aphorisms

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Kafka’s rediscovered notebooks- a distillation of the master at his most powerful and enigmatic

Franz Kafka spent eight months at his sister’s house in Z rau 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 in 1924. 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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Date
1 August 2014
Pages
160
ISBN
9781846558382

Kafka’s rediscovered notebooks- a distillation of the master at his most powerful and enigmatic

Franz Kafka spent eight months at his sister’s house in Z rau 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 in 1924. 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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Date
1 August 2014
Pages
160
ISBN
9781846558382