Kafka's Prague A Travel Reader

by Wagenbach, Klaus

• ISBN13: 9780879516444
• ISBN10: 0879516445
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-02-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

Franz Kafka, whose cool detached prose and vivid literary images of power and metamorphosis have left a lasting influence on almost all of the world's literatures, ever hardly left his home city of Prague during his short life (1883-1924). This travel book-cum-reader provides a journey through both Kafka's reality and imagination permitting the reader or traveller to experience Kafka's milieu as he wrote such books as 'The Trial' and 'Metamorphosis'. Includes 8 maps and 150 B & W photographs - contemporary and vintage.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(2)
Kafka's Prague	9	(10)
Franz Kafka, The City Coat of Arms	17	(2)
Kafka's Life	19	(10)
The Houses	29	(38)
Birthplace	31	(1)
Sixthaus	31	(1)
Minuta	32	(3)
At the Three Kings	35	(3)
Franz Kafka, The Window on the Street	38	(1)
The ``Shop''	39	(3)
At the Ship; the Civilian Swimming School	42	(4)
Max Brod's Apartment	46	(2)
Oppelthaus	48	(2)
Bilekgasse	50	(2)
Nerudagasse; the Asbestos Factory	52	(5)
At the Golden Pike	57	(2)
Alchimistengasse	59	(2)
Franz Kafka, An Imperial Message	61	(2)
Schonborn Palace	63	(2)
Oppelthaus; the Grave	65	(2)
The Official's Career Path	67	(18)
Volksschule	70	(1)
Gymnasium	71	(2)
University	73	(3)
The ``Gerichtsjahr''	76	(1)
Assicuriazioni Generali	77	(1)
Handels-Akademie (Business School)	78	(1)
Workers' Accident Insurance Institute	79	(3)
Franz Kafka, Accident Prevention Regulations in the Use of Wood-Planing Machines	82	(3)
Favorite Walks	85	(22)
On the Laurenziberg	88	(8)
Across the Belvedere to Chotek Park and the Little Quarter	96	(7)
Into the Baumgarten and to Troja	103	(4)
Literary Places and Entertainments	107	(18)
Theaters, Lecture Halls	109	(6)
Bookshops, Libraries	115	(2)
Cinema, Cabaret	117	(2)
Cafes, Outings	119	(6)
Sources	125