1.

Record Nr.

UNICASRML0304414

Autore

Dickens, Charles

Titolo

Master humphrey's clock and child's history of england / by charles Dickens ; With twenty-nine illustration by George Cattermole 'Phiz', Marcus Stone and F.W.Thopham and an introduction by Derek Hudson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Oxford University press, 1958

ISBN

0192545205

Descrizione fisica

XI,531 p. : ill. ; 19 cm

Collana

The Oxford illustrated Dickens. - London : Oxford University press

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972818103321

Autore

Friedlander Saul <1932->

Titolo

Franz Kafka : the poet of shame and guilt / / Saul Friedlander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2013

ISBN

9781299464018

1299464017

9780300195156

030019515X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

x, 183 p

Collana

Jewish lives

Disciplina

833/.912

B

Soggetti

Authors, Austrian - 20th century

Jewish authors - Austria

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Son -- 2. "The Dark Complexity of Judaism" -- 3. Love, Sex, and Fantasies -- 4. Night Journey -- 5. The Writer and His Worlds -- 6. An Ultimate Quest for Meaning? -- Notes -- Index of Names

Sommario/riassunto

Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence-in his many letters, in his extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating book investigates some of the sources of Kafka's personal anguish and its complex reflections in his imaginary world. In his query, Saul Friedländer probes major aspects of Kafka's life (family, Judaism, love and sex, writing, illness, and despair) that until now have been skewed by posthumous censorship. Contrary to Kafka's dying request that all his papers be burned, Max Brod, Kafka's closest friend and literary executor, edited and published the author's novels and other works soon after his death in 1924. Friedländer shows that, when reinserted in Kafka's letters and diaries, deleted segments lift the mask of "sainthood" frequently attached to the writer and thus restore previously hidden aspects of his individuality.