From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony comes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interestβa virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka.
What are Kafkaβs fictions about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Countless answers have been offered, but the essential mystery remains intact. Setting out on his own exploration, Roberto Calasso enters the flow, the tortuous movement, the physiology of Kafkaβs work to discover why K. and Josef K.βthe protagonists of The Castle and The Trialβare so radically different from any other character in the history of the novel, and to determine who, in the end, is K. The culmination of Calassoβs lifelong fascination with Kafkaβs work, K. is also an unprecedented consideration of the mystery of Kafka himself.
From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony comes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interestβa virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka.
What are Kafkaβs fictions about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? C...