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Literature & Fiction

The Zurau Aphorisms

The Zurau Aphorisms

The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth centuryâ‚¬s most influential writers are now gathered into a single volume with an introduction and afterword by the celebrated writer and publisher Roberto Calasso.

Illness set him free to write a series of philosophical fragments: some narratives, some single images, some parables. These â‚¬Å“aphorismsâ‚¬Â appeared, sometimes with a few words changed, in other writingsâ‚¬â€œsome of them as posthumous fragments published only after Kafkaâ‚¬s death in 1924. While working on K., his major book on Kafka, in the Bodleian Library, Roberto Calasso realized that the Zrau aphorisms, each written on a separate slip of very thin paper, numbered but unbound, represented something unique in Kafkaâ‚¬s opusâ‚¬â€œa work whose form he had created simultaneously with its content.

The notebooks, freshly translated and laid out as Kafka had intended, are a distillation of Kafka at his most powerful and enigmatic. This lost jewel provides the reader with a fresh perspective on the collective work of a genius.
Country USA
Brand Schocken
Manufacturer Schocken
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2006-12-26
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780805212075

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