Metamorphoses : In Search of Franz Kafka

This groundbreaking study of Franz Kafka? legacy?o be published during the centenary of his death in 2024?xplores Kafka? life and influence in an entirely new and dynamic way. In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of forty, readers all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects. Who, exactly, was Franz Kafka? Karolina Watroba, the first Germanist ever elected as a fellow of Oxford's All Souls College, will tell Kafka's story beyond the boundaries of language, time, and space, traveling from the Prague of Kafka's birth through the work of contemporary writers in East Asia, whose award-winning novels are, in part, homages to the great man himself. Metamorphoses presents a non-chronological journey through Kafka's life, combining literary scholarship with the responses of his readers throughout the last century. It is a both an exploration of Kafka's life and an exciting new way of approaching literary history.

Author: Karolina Watroba

Publisher: Pegasus Books

Publication Date: Jun 04, 2024

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 1639366717

ISBN-13: 9781639366712