Franz Kafka

By Jeremy Adler

Book Overview

The illustrations in this volume include rarely seen drawings from Kafka's workbooks, images of the Prague environment that inspired his nightmarish works, photos of Kafka with friends and colleagues, and reproductions of letters, manuscripts, and first edition book jackets. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158567267X
• ISBN13: 9781585672677
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

An excellent book of photograhs

The photographs are excellent. And they give a picture of Kafka's world beyond what the imagination could conjure. The text is a reasonable introduction without going into great depths. This is a good companion volume especially for those for whom Kafka is a lifetime friend and spiritual guide.

Another welcome addition to the Overlook Illustrated Lives

I have now read several of the books collected in the Overlook Illustrated Lives series. None of the additions to these books will hardly be mistaken for a definitive treatment of the particular subject, but through their lavish use of illustrations and photographs they provide a much more tactile introduction to an author than is normal. It is one thing to read of an author that he or she lived at such and such a place,...