Recommended Books on The Kafka Project

Giselda Leirner: La fille de Kafka

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:03:10 +0000

Editions Joelle Losfeld - Price: 10 euro

Dans ces dix récits brefs, qui en réalité ne font qu’un conte unique, un personnage principal se transforme en de multiples personnages. Tous ces " doubles " oscillent entre la grandeur et la misère, la mesquinerie et la générosité. L’originalité stylistique et narrative se manifeste dès le premier récit, qui donne son titre à l’ouvrage, La fille de Kafka où, après un échange fictif de lettres entre le père et la fille, l’auteur mêle habilement réalité et fiction.

François Taillandier legge Il Processo di Kafka

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:00:52 +0000

François Taillandier legge Il processo di Franz Kafka

Ed. Metauro, Piccola Biblioteca del Romanzo, pp. 39, 7.50 euro

Lo strano fascino di questo romanzo sta proprio nel suggerire tutti i livelli di senso possibili senza lasciarsi ridurre ad alcuno. Noi percepiamo in tutta evidenza il suo rapporto con la storia del XX secolo, con l’interrogazione metafisica ed esistenziale, coi tormenti segreti della psiche: ci rimanda ad essi, ma rimane nell’ombra. Così come non spiega il mondo che mi circonda, Il processo non si lascia spiegare da esso.

Philipp Lundberg: Essential Kafka

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:32:43 +0000

Phillip Lundberg

Essential Kafka: Rendezvous with ‘otherness’. Five Stories by Franz Kafka

This translation of Kafka has a dual purpose, for starters it intends to provide English readers with a better translation: that Kafka’s prose should find a more fitting analogy in ‘modern (American) English’ whereby it should come to life to a greater degree, and that his underlying philosophy—and I say philosophy in the greater sense—thus, should be grasped more readily. The second purpose is to explore issues regarding translation per se: what is the proper role of the translator? and why are so many translations done so poorly? The five stories included in this book have been carefully selected to present Kafka’s literary genius in its historical genesis: from Metamorphosis (1915), Report to the Academy (1917), In the Penal Colony (1919), The Burrow (1923/24) - to Kafka’s “last word” Josephine the Songstress or The Mouse Folk which was written shortly before Kafka’s death in 1924.

Letter to the Father, Greek Translation by Alexander Kypriotis

Fri, 19 May 2006 12:36:51 +0000

Alexandros Kypriotis

Franz Kafka: Letter to the Father

First translation into Greek from the original manuscripts.

Στην “Επιστολή προς τον πατέρα” ο Φραντς Κάφκα παρουσιάζεται περισσότερο από ποτέ “… σαν γυμνός ανάμεσα σε ντυμένους”, όπως τον χαρακτήρισε η πρώτη μεταφράστριά του στα Τσεχικά, και αγαπημένη του, Μίλενα Γέσενσκα…

Niels Bokhove & Marijke van Dorst, Einmal ein grosser Zeichner [Franz Kafka pictorial artist]

Fri, 19 May 2006 12:20:34 +0000

A collection of all hitherto known drawings of the author Franz Kafka, edited by Niels Bokhove and Marijke van Dorst. Franz Kafka is famous as a writer, but his original wish to become a draughtsman is almost unknown. This edition brings together the fourty drawings ever here and there published. Each drawing is accompanied with one or more texts (in German), belonging to or matching with it . The volume concludes with an afterword (in Dutch) and copious notes to the drawings. A publication on occasion of the decennial jubilee of the Dutch Franz Kafka Circle. Edition in large size (A4), 99 pp. Restricted printing. Salon Saffier, publisher. Orders to: [Marijke van Dorst](mailto:m.vandorst@inter.nl.net?subject=Einmal ein grosser Zeichner), or: Nachtegaalstraat 55 II, NL-3581 AD Utrecht. Tel./fax +31 30 670 10 20. ISBN 90-807595-1-1. - Price € 18,50 (excl. dispatch costs (package and postage) Europe priority € 5,25, standard € 4,00; outside Europe priority € 10,00, standard € 6,50). Order by remittance of total amount to M. van Dorst/Salon Saffier, Postbank 3258980 (or by sending an International Money Order), mentioning ‘Kafka drawings’. N.B. all bank charges etc. for client’s account (OUR)! (IBAN NL 30 - PSTB 0003 2598980. And one HAS to mention “M. van Dorst”, not only “Salon Saffier”, because this last is not linked to the IBAN number in the bank’s system)

Kafka, by Nicholas Murray

Fri, 19 May 2006 12:16:48 +0000


Price:	$19.80

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly The story is well known: the frail, anxiety-ridden young man in Prague who suffers under an overbearing, uncouth father. Every day he trudges off to his boring job at an insurance company. He is drawn to women yet agonizes about every relationship. At night, he writes away but wins scant recognition. He contracts tuberculosis, and his last, truly miserable years are spent in and out of sanatoriums. His final wish is that all his manuscripts be burned, but his best friend violates the request. Within a few years of his death in 1924, Franz Kafka’s writings about characters ensnared by the world around them for no apparent reason are recognized as brilliant manifestations of literary modernism. Murray (Bruce Chatwin, etc.) is an experienced biographer and effectively relates Kafka’s brief life, trying valiantly to depict a more normal Kafka, a man who lived in society with good friends, enjoyed sex, had wide-ranging intellectual interests and became enamored of Judaism. In Murray’s account, Kafka’s employer valued him highly, and under the imprint of no less a figure than Kurt Wolff, he experienced some literary success. Despite Murray’s best efforts to contain Kafka’s idiosyncrasies, though, the writer remains the tormented soul who created out of his personal anxieties and agonies some of the most acclaimed works of the 20th century. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.