Conversations with Kafka by Gustav Janouch
They talk about writing (Kafka's own, but also that of his favorite writers: Poe, Kleist, and Rimbaud, who transforms vowels into colors) as well as technology, film, crime, Darwinism, Chinese philosophy, carpentry, insomnia, street fights, Hindu scripture, art, suicide, and prayer. Prayer, Kafka notes, brings its infinite radiance to bed in the frail little cradle of one's own existence.
"Stunning" -- Leonard Michaels "This remarkable book, itself the result of a miraculous discovery of material believed lost, is one of the most exciting works - fiction, nonfiction, poetry - I remember having read." -- Joyce Carol Oates "Kafka is for me one of the last, and therefore perhaps one of the greatest, because closest to us, of mankind's religious and ethical teachers." -- Gustav Janouch
Gustav Janouch (1903–1968) was a young poet whose father worked at the same insurance company as Kafka. A certain amount of controversy has been aroused by his Conversations with Kafka: some have been skeptical that any human being can talk the way Kafka does in this book, but both Max Brod and Dora Diamant considered it authentic. Born in Brooklyn, Francine Prose has published fourteen novels. The Washington Post has called her work a “sheer delight.” Goronwy Rees (1909 –1979) was a Welsh journalist, academic, translator and writer.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780811219501 |
| ISBN 10 | 081121950X |
| Title | Conversations with Kafka |
| Author | Gustav Janouch |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2012-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 228 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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