Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt by Friedländer, Saul
Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt by Friedländer, Saul

Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a highly original and engaging appraisal of Franz Kafka's life, work,...
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Author: Saul Friedländer
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Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt by Friedländer, Saul

Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt

BD$45.82
Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt by Friedländer, Saul

Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt

BD$45.82
Author: Saul Friedländer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a highly original and engaging appraisal of Franz Kafka's life, work, legacy, and thought

"The work of a great historian paying careful attention to a great and disquieting writer."--Robert Eaglestone, Times Higher Education Supplement

Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence--in his many letters, in his extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating book investigates some of the sources of Kafka's personal anguish and its complex reflections in his imaginary world.

In his query, Saul Friedländer probes major aspects of Kafka's life (family, Judaism, love and sex, writing, illness, and despair) that until now have been skewed by posthumous censorship. Contrary to Kafka's dying request that all his papers be burned, Max Brod, Kafka's closest friend and literary executor, edited and published the author's novels and other works soon after his death in 1924. Friedländer shows that, when reinserted in Kafka's letters and diaries, deleted segments lift the mask of "sainthood" frequently attached to the writer and thus restore previously hidden aspects of his individuality.

About Jewish Lives:

Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present.

In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.

More praise for Jewish Lives:

"Excellent" -New York Times

"Exemplary" -Wall Street Journal

"Distinguished" -New Yorker

"Superb" -The Guardian

Author: Saul Friedländer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 04/16/2013
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.90w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780300136616


Award: National Jewish Book Award - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/29/2013
Choice 09/01/2013

About the Author
Saul Friedländer is a renowned historian of the Holocaust and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History and Club 39 Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies at UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.


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