Franz Kafka Overlook Illustrated Lives

by Adler, Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9781585672677
• ISBN10: 158567267X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-13
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

Renowned Kafka scholar Jeremy Adler examines the life of the writer who probed the hostile side of modernity in darkly terrifying masterpieces that mirrored the turmoil of his own inner world. The illustrations in this volume include rarely seen drawings from Kafka's workbooks, images of the Prague environment that inspired his nightmarish works, photos of Kafka with friends and colleagues, and reproductions of letters, manuscripts, and first edition book jackets.

Author Biography

Jeremy Adler is Professor of German at King's College, London. He is a sometime fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, and a sometime scholar of the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuttel

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Franz Kafka
Preface	3	(8)
A Prague Childhood	11	(16)
The Artist as a Young Man	27	(19)
At the Workers' Accident Insurance	46	(9)
The Making of a Writer	55	(14)
The Breakthrough	69	(16)
The Great War	85	(15)
The Final Rupture	100	(11)
The Last Earthly Frontier	111	(24)
References	135	(12)
Chronology	147	(6)
Bibliography	153	(6)
List of Illustrations and Photographic Acknowledgements	159