Издания и произведения

Личность Франца Кафки окутана множеством загадок и мифов. Его произведения, пронизанные абсурдом и страхом перед внешним миром и высшим авторитетом, способны пробуждать в читателе соответствующие тревожные чувства. Почему автор создавал такие произведения, какие демоны вели его по жизни и как он с ними боролся? Первый графический роман-биография в стиле нуар откроет самые потаенные уголки души писателя. Узнайте больше о гении величайшего писателя!

"What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself." Nothing could better express the essence of Franz Kafka, a man described by his friends as living behind a "glass wall." Kafka wrote in the tradition of the great Yiddish storytellers, whose stock-in-trade was bizarre fantasy tainted with hilarity and self-abasement. What he added to this tradition was an almost unbearably expanded consciousness. Alienated from his roots, his family, his surroundings, and primarily from his own body, Kafka created a unique literary language in which to hide away, transforming himself into a cockroach, an ape, a dog,…

First general biography in UK for twenty years of one of the defining writers of the 20th century - Franz Kafka. This gripping biography of the great Czech novelist, diarist and short story writer chronicles Kafka's entire (if tragically curtailed) life (1883-1924), but it focuses upon the writer's relationship to his father and his inheritance as a member of the Jewish mercantile bourgeoisie in Prague. Born into a German-speaking Jewish family, Kafka was a subject of the Austro-Hunga