Excavating Kafka by James Hawes
An authoritative and entertaining deconstruction of an icon of literary modernism
James Hawes has matured into a wonderful satirist..a comic novelist of considerable stature - Guardian Comparisons with Evelyn Waugh are not misplaced - Sunday Telegraph Highly entertaining galloping, lucid prose. There's real enthusiasm here too a witty anti-biography - Observer Undeniably an exhilarating read. The heresy helps but so does Hawes's pacy, non-academic prose and his sharp eye for fascinating snippets of literary history - Daily Telegraph A revelation and a scream, this wonderfully irreverent book ends up paying Kafka a greater compliment than that of the 'Kafka-myth', 5 stars - The Scotsman combination of zeal and cynicism is irresistible - Daily Telegraph.
As an Oxford undergraduate James Hawes saw and handled the original manuscript of The Castle. After taking a PhD on Nietzsche and Kafka, he held university lecture-ships at Maynooth, Sheffield and Swansea. He is the author of five novels, including A White Merc with Fins and White Powder, Green Light. His most recent novel, Speak For England (2005), was widely and enthusiastically reviewed. The BBC has commissioned Andrew Davies to re-work the novel for TV.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847245441 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847245447 |
| Title | Excavating Kafka |
| Author | James Hawes |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-08-07 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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