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Chargement... K (édition 2005)par Roberto Calasso
Information sur l'oeuvreK. par Roberto Calasso
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Wish I could give this one a 3.75. Wasn't nearly as good as The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, but Calasso really does have a fantastic way with words. ( ) Wow! A better analysis of Kafka than Benjamin and Adorno? I may not have thought it was possible, but here's the ever-intriguing Roberto Calasso to prove me wrong. Calasso's 'K' focuses mainly on Kafka's two unfinished masterpieces, 'The Castle' and 'The Trial' but he also touches on Kafka's short stories (among them 'In the Penal Colony' and 'The Metamorphosis') as well as 'Amerika' and Kafka's personal letters and journal entries. Unlike Benjamin and Adorno (both of whom seem rather uptight when confronted by the flagrantly sexual and often sexually exploited females of Kafka's imagination), Calasso is not afraid to examine the sexual aspects of these two novels, nor is he spooked by the numinous quality, the unfathomable strangeness of Kafka's literary world. While well aware of Kafka's relationship with his father, his ethnicity, his love affairs, his mental state, Calasso never reduces Kafka's art to quotidian motives or simple answers. He embraces the mystery that lies behind all of Kafka's work and he invites the intelligent reader to do the same. Very highly recommended
Only a footnote but intriguing: "In the matter of originality of approach one should mention Pietro Citati’s Kafka (English translation 1990) and Robert [sic] Calasso’s K. (English translation 2005). These are not biographies but deeply perceptive and poetic meditations on the unique phenomenon that Kafka represented."
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 interest–a virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka. What are Kafka’s 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 Kafka’s work to discover why K. and Josef K.–the protagonists of The Castle and The Trial–are 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 Calasso’s lifelong fascination with Kafka’s work, K. is also an unprecedented consideration of the mystery of Kafka himself. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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