99 results for '"Franz Kafka"'

The eagerly anticipated final volume of the award-winning, definitive biography of Franz KafkaHow did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive...

Winner of the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature "Dramatic and illuminating…[R]aises momentous questions about nationality, religion, literature, and even the Holocaust." —Adam Kirsch, The...

Echoing Edward Said's belief that "Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism," renowned critic Clive James presents here his life's work. Containing over one hundred original...

Schwindelartige Gefühle der Irritation - in den vier durch wiederkehrende Motive und literarische Anspielungen kunstvoll miteinander verwobenen, geheimnisvollen Geschichten überkommen sie den...

Six essays on creativity from one of the twentieth century’s foremost Jungian psychologistsErich Neumann, whom C. G. Jung regarded as one of his most gifted students, devoted much of his later...

An examination of childhood trauma and its surreptitious, debilitating effects by one of the world's leading psychoanalysts.Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so...

A delightfully witty and original graphic biography of Kafka, published to coincide with the centenary of the author’s deathThis bold and sharply funny new look at Kafka is told through Nicolas...

In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public...

"When I walked through the large iron gate of the hospital, I must have still been alive..." So begins Ahmed Bouanani's arresting, hallucinatory 1989 novel The Hospital, appearing for the first time...

Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative novel from one of America’s most brilliant and distinctive writers—"a dreamlike exploration of human nature, seen through a speculative lens"...

In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public...

In this groundbreaking new book, psychotherapist Andrew Jamieson considers ten key principles of psychoanalysis and illuminates them through psychobiographies of twenty extraordinary people.From...

A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation—and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners—Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch couple...

A haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradictions of the twentieth-century female experience.A close friend and protégé of Marguerite Duras,...

A writer finds solitude and salvation tracing the lives and deaths of three of her literary lights in a haunted and lyrical travelogue from NBCC Award-winner Tezer Özlü.An unnamed writer embarks on...

Award-winning graphic novelist Peter Kuper presents a mesmerizing interpretation of fourteen iconic Kafka short stories.Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illustrating...

From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories...

Mircea Cartarescu, born in 1956, is one of Romania's leading novelists and poets. This translation of his 1989 novel Nostalgia, writes Andrei Codrescu, "introduces to English a writer who has always...

In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish--even when you're not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria...

A taut, appealing, and often quite funny exploration of existential angst."―Kirkus ReviewsIn a nameless suburb in an equally nameless country, every house has a room reserved for the president. No...