{"product_id":"kafka-book-nicholas-murray-9780316724791","title":"Kafka","description":"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-Hungarian  empire until 1919 yet through his work he is one of the most modern of  writers. While previous works have concentrated on Kafka and his  women, Nicholas Murray will concentrate on his extraordinary  relationship with his father which found its most eloquent literary  expression in the story 'The Judgement' written in 1912 when Kafka was  twenty-nine: in a reverse Oedipal move, the father condemns his son to  death by drowning. This work is essential for an understanding of the  intensely private and complex Kafka and the kind of writer he turned  out to be - the creator in THE CASTLE, THE TRIAL and METAMORPHOSIS  (the dazzling short story whose hero wakes up to find himself  transformed into a giant insect) of some of the defining literature of  the 20th century.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49608412594449,"sku":"GOR004331319","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49637060641041,"sku":"GOR004749261","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0316724793.jpg?v=1751443313","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/kafka-book-nicholas-murray-9780316724791","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}