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Franz Kafka: The Best Works

par Franz Kafka ...

This ebook compiles Franz Kafka's greatest writings, including novels, novellas, short stories and parables such as "Amerika", "The Trial", "The Metamorphosis", "The Castle", "In the Penal Colony", "A Hunger Artist" and "The Great Wall of China". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) ... En savoir plus

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This ebook compiles Franz Kafka's greatest writings, including novels, novellas, short stories and parables such as "Amerika", "The Trial", "The Metamorphosis", "The Castle", "In the Penal Colony", "A Hunger Artist" and "The Great Wall of China". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)
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Rainer Maria Rilke's <I>The Book of Hours</I>

A New Translation with Commentary

par Rainer Maria Rilke ...

Traduit par Susan Ranson ...

Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is less known. The Bookof Hours, written in three bursts between 1899 and 1903, is Rilke's most formative work, covering a crucial period in his rapid ascent from fin-de-siècle epigone to distinctive modern ... En savoir plus

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Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is less known. The Bookof Hours, written in three bursts between 1899 and 1903, is Rilke's most formative work, covering a crucial period in his rapid ascent from fin-de-siècle epigone to distinctive modern
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German Literature

A Very Short Introduction

par Nicholas Boyle ...

Collections series Very Short Introductions
German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Günter Grass, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction presents an engrossing tour of the course of German literature from the late Middle Ages to the present, focussing especially on the last 250 years. Emphasizing the economic and religious context of many masterpieces of German literature, it ... En savoir plus

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German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Günter Grass, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction presents an engrossing tour of the course of German literature from the late Middle Ages to the present, focussing especially on the last 250 years. Emphasizing the economic and religious context of many masterpieces of German literature, it
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Illuminations

Essays and Reflections

par Walter Benjamin, Leon Wieseltier ...

Traduit par Henry Zohn ...

Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic ... En savoir plus

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Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic
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Letters to Milena

par Franz Kafka ...

Collections series The Schocken Kafka Library
In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenska, was a gifted and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was uniquely able to recognize Kafka's complex genius and his even more complex character. For the thirty-six-year ... En savoir plus

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In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenska, was a gifted and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was uniquely able to recognize Kafka's complex genius and his even more complex character. For the thirty-six-year
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A Most Dangerous Book

Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

par Christopher B. B. Krebs ...

The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height ... En savoir plus

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The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height
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Thomas Mann's War

Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters

par Tobias Boes ...

In Thomas Mann's War**, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted.**Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, began his self-imposed exile in the United ... En savoir plus

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In Thomas Mann's War**, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted.**Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, began his self-imposed exile in the United
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Auguste Rodin

par Rainer Maria Rilke ...

Traduit par Daniel Slager ...

An “elegant translation” of Rilke’s writings on sculptor Auguste Rodin that “offers a fresh look at an unlikely mentorship” and two extraordinary artists (The New York Times Book Review).Sculptor Auguste Rodin was fortunate to have his secretary Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most sensitive poets of our time. These two pieces discussing Rodin’s work and development as an artist are as revealing of ... En savoir plus

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An “elegant translation” of Rilke’s writings on sculptor Auguste Rodin that “offers a fresh look at an unlikely mentorship” and two extraordinary artists (The New York Times Book Review).Sculptor Auguste Rodin was fortunate to have his secretary Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most sensitive poets of our time. These two pieces discussing Rodin’s work and development as an artist are as revealing of
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The Trial

par Franz Kafka ...

Collections series The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time - Starbooks Classics Collection
The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader.Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter which brings the story to ... En savoir plus

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The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader.Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter which brings the story to
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The Emergence of Memory

Conversations with W.G. Sebald

par W.G. Sebald ...

When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching ... En savoir plus

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When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching
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Le Tambour de Günter Grass

Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis

par Encyclopaedia Universalis ...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisÀ l’automne de 1959 paraît en République fédérale d’Allemagne un roman, Le Tambour. Ce premier volet de ce qui deviendra, avec Le Chat et la souris (1961) et Les Années de chien (1963), la Trilogie de Dantzig provoque aussitôt des polémiques.Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Le Tambour de ... En savoir plus

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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisÀ l’automne de 1959 paraît en République fédérale d’Allemagne un roman, Le Tambour. Ce premier volet de ce qui deviendra, avec Le Chat et la souris (1961) et Les Années de chien (1963), la Trilogie de Dantzig provoque aussitôt des polémiques.Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Le Tambour de
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (Book Analysis)

Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

par Bright Summaries ...

Collections series BrightSummaries.com
Unlock the more straightforward side of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, which follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who is shunned and rejected by society in spite of his incredible talent as a perfume-maker. What no one knows is that his ... En savoir plus

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Unlock the more straightforward side of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, which follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who is shunned and rejected by society in spite of his incredible talent as a perfume-maker. What no one knows is that his
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Gesammelte Werke: Gedichte + Erzählungen + Roman + Dramen + Schriften zu Kunst und Literatur

Dinglyrik, Duineser Elegien, Malte Laurids Brigge, Jenseitskritik

par Rainer Maria Rilke ...

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Gedichte + Dramen + Erzählungen + Roman + Schriften zu Kunst und Literatur" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) war ein Lyriker deutscher Sprache. Mit seiner in den Neuen Gedichten vollendeten, von der bildenden Kunst beeinflussten Dinglyrik gilt er als einer ... En savoir plus

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Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Gedichte + Dramen + Erzählungen + Roman + Schriften zu Kunst und Literatur" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) war ein Lyriker deutscher Sprache. Mit seiner in den Neuen Gedichten vollendeten, von der bildenden Kunst beeinflussten Dinglyrik gilt er als einer
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The Trial: The Original 1925 Unabridged and Complete Edition (Franz Kafka Classics)

par Franz Kafka ...

The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Kafka even ... En savoir plus

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The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Kafka even
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The Metamorphosis

par Franz Kafka ...

Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. "monstrous vermin") and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition. ... En savoir plus

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Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. "monstrous vermin") and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition.
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Franz Kafka

The Necessity of Form

par Stanley Corngold ...

In Stanley Corngold's view, the themes and strategies of Kafka's fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his growing sense of its arbitrary character. Analyzing Kafka's work in light of "the necessity of form," which is also a merely formal necessity, Corngold uncovers the fundamental paradox of Kafka's art and life. The first section of the book shows how Kafka's ... En savoir plus

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In Stanley Corngold's view, the themes and strategies of Kafka's fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his growing sense of its arbitrary character. Analyzing Kafka's work in light of "the necessity of form," which is also a merely formal necessity, Corngold uncovers the fundamental paradox of Kafka's art and life. The first section of the book shows how Kafka's
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50 Obras Maestras que debes leer antes de morir

Vol.1 (Bauer Classics)

par Antonio Machado, Federico García Lorca, Gustav Meyrink, Solomon Northup, Miguel de Unamuno, Julio Verne, Mariano José de Larra, José de Espronceda, Amado Nervo, Alexander Pushkin, Francisco de Quevedo, Aristóteles, Benito Pérez Galdos, Virginia Woolf, Gustave Flaubert, Mark Twain, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, Jonathan Swift, Giovanni Boccaccio, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sir Walter Scott, Jack London, Sigmund Freud, William Shakespeare, James Fenimore Cooper, Carlo Collodi, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anne Brontë, Charles Baudelaire, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fedor Mikhaïlovitch Dostoïevski, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, Dante Alighieri, Alexandre Dumas, H.P. Lovecraft, Kahlil Gibran, James Joyce, Bauer Books ...

Collections Livre 1 - 50 Classics you must read before you die
Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa.La Divina Comedia por Dante AlighieriMetafísica por AristótelesSentido y Sensibiildad por Jane AustenLas Flores del Mal por Charles BaudelaireEl Decamerón por Giovanni BoccaccioAgnes Grey (Español) por Anne Brontë<... ... En savoir plus

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Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa.La Divina Comedia por Dante AlighieriMetafísica por AristótelesSentido y Sensibiildad por Jane AustenLas Flores del Mal por Charles BaudelaireEl Decamerón por Giovanni BoccaccioAgnes Grey (Español) por Anne Brontë<...
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The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales

Expanded Edition

par Maria Tatar ...

Collections series Princeton Classics
Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations of six tales with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar draws on the disciplinary ... En savoir plus

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Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations of six tales with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar draws on the disciplinary
... En savoir plus
Chinese Sympathies

Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe

par Daniel Leonhard Purdy ...

Collections series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans—German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular—identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels**.** This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established ... En savoir plus

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Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans—German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular—identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels**.** This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established
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In a Dark Wood Wandering

A Novel of the Middle Ages

par Hella S. Haasse ...

In this novel, set in the 15th century during the Hundred Years War between France and England, Hella Haasse brilliantly captures all the drama of one of the great ages of history. ... En savoir plus

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In this novel, set in the 15th century during the Hundred Years War between France and England, Hella Haasse brilliantly captures all the drama of one of the great ages of history.
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L'Homme sans qualités de Robert Musil

Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis

par Encyclopaedia Universalis ...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisCommencé vers 1918, le vaste projet romanesque de L’Homme sans qualités absorba toute l’énergie de Robert Musil (1880-1942) jusqu’à sa mort, sans qu’il puisse parvenir à le mener à bien.Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur L'Homme sans qualités de Robert MusilChaque fiche de lecture présente ... En savoir plus

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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisCommencé vers 1918, le vaste projet romanesque de L’Homme sans qualités absorba toute l’énergie de Robert Musil (1880-1942) jusqu’à sa mort, sans qu’il puisse parvenir à le mener à bien.Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur L'Homme sans qualités de Robert MusilChaque fiche de lecture présente
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The Brothers Grimm

A Biography

par Ann Schmiesing ...

The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm“Magisterial.”—Kirkus ReviewsMore than two hundred years ago, the German brothers Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859) published a collection of fairy tales that remains famous the world over. It has been translated into some ... En savoir plus

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The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm“Magisterial.”—Kirkus ReviewsMore than two hundred years ago, the German brothers Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859) published a collection of fairy tales that remains famous the world over. It has been translated into some
... En savoir plus
Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist

par Heinrich von Kleist ...

Traduit par Peter Wortsman ...

In this extraordinary and unpredictable cross-section of the work of one of the most influential free spirits of German letters, Peter Wortsman captures the breathlessness and power of Heinrich von Kleist’s transcendent prose. These tales, essays, and fragments move across inner landscapes, exploring the shaky bridges between reason and feeling and the frontiers between the human psyche and the ... En savoir plus

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In this extraordinary and unpredictable cross-section of the work of one of the most influential free spirits of German letters, Peter Wortsman captures the breathlessness and power of Heinrich von Kleist’s transcendent prose. These tales, essays, and fragments move across inner landscapes, exploring the shaky bridges between reason and feeling and the frontiers between the human psyche and the
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Is that Kafka?

99 Finds

par Reiner Stach ...

Traduit par Kurt Beals ...

Out of the massive research for an authoritative 1,500-page biography emerges this wunderkammer of 99 delightfully odd facts about KafkaIn the course of compiling his highly acclaimed three-volume biography of Kafka, while foraying to libraries and archives from Prague to Israel, Reiner Stach made one astounding discovery after another: unexpected photographs, inconsistencies in handwritten texts, ... En savoir plus

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Out of the massive research for an authoritative 1,500-page biography emerges this wunderkammer of 99 delightfully odd facts about KafkaIn the course of compiling his highly acclaimed three-volume biography of Kafka, while foraying to libraries and archives from Prague to Israel, Reiner Stach made one astounding discovery after another: unexpected photographs, inconsistencies in handwritten texts,
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