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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by a true story, Kafka and the Doll recounts a remarkable gesture of kindness from one of the world's most bewildering and iconic writers. In the fall of 1923, Franz Kafka encountered a distraught little girl on a walk in the park. She'd lost her doll and was inconsolable. Kafka told her the doll wasn't lost, but instead, traveling the world and having grand adventures! And to reassure her, Kafka began delivering letters from the doll to...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illustrating his stories in 1988. Initially drawn to the masters dark humor, Kuper adapted the stories over the years to plumb their deeper truths. Kupers style deliberately evokes Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel, contemporaries of Kafka whose wordless novels captured much of the same claustrophobia and mania as Kafkas tales. Working from new translations of the classic texts, Kuper has...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In graphic novel format, reworks Kafka's tale of family and alienation featuring traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who awakens in his family home one morning to find himself turned into a giant bug.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Collects seven short stories by the great Czech writer whose works have come to epitomize the alienation and dilemmas of 20th century humanity. The title story tells of a minor civil servant who awakes one morning to discover that he has turned into a gigaintic insect.
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