Product details
ISBN
9780241399439
Published
2020
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd; Penguin Classics
Weight
246 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
18 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
336
Author
Translated by
Biographical note
Roberto Calasso was born in Florence in 1941. An author and publisher, he began working at Adelphi Edizioni from its founding in 1962 and continued as director for fifty years. The Book of All Books is the tenth part of a series that began with The Ruin of Kasch and includes the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony as well as Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, La Folie Baudelaire, Ardor, The Celestial Hunter and The Unnamable Present. He died in Milan in 2021.What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when?
In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique vision, imagination, and intellectual acumen, Calasso attempts to enter the flow, the tortuous movement, the physiology of the stories to discover what they are meant to signify and to delve into the most basic question: Who is K.?
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A singular journey through the visionary world of Kafka and its captivating mysteries, now in Penguin Modern Classics.
Product details
ISBN
9780241399439
Published
2020
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd; Penguin Classics
Weight
246 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
18 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
336
Author
Translated by