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Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvRoberto Calasso

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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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Utgivningsdatum2020-04-23
Mått129 x 198 x 18 mm
Vikt246 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePenguin Modern Classics
Antal sidor336
FörlagPenguin Books Ltd
ISBN9780241399439
ÖversättareGeoffrey Brock

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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. Geoffrey Brock is the author of three books of poems, the editor of The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry and the award-winning translator of numerous volumes from Italian.