Kafka: Die frühen Jahre
By: Reiner Stach
4.54
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
DER ABSCHLUSS DER GROSSEN KAFKA-BIOGRAPHIE »Das Beste, was in diesem Genre hervorgebracht werden…
Want to Read $ 13.99"It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure act of will. An untold number had done this before him for religious reasons, but Kafka had based his renunciation on nothing but a self-image. He claimed that for better or worse he was what he was, and that therefore much was out of the question for him"-Reiner Stach, Kafka: Die frühen Jahre
"Kafka knew precisely what he did *not* want: he did not even consider becoming an attorney or using his linguistic gifts to earn a living. Having his afternoons free was more important to him than the prospects of bourgeois prosperity [...] He often appeared passive and overly despondent, yet he stuck to his avoidance schemes even when they posed critical challenges to his psyche. It was as though he were carrying a compass that pointed out to him nothing but the *wrong* direction"-Reiner Stach, Kafka: Die frühen Jahre
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1. Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice
By: Elias Canetti , Christopher Middleton
3.86
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Felice Bauer was Kafka's first great love and the inspiration for his first great fiction. Six week… read more
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- german literature
- history
- biography
- literature
- nonfiction
- literary criticism
"There is, in Kafka, a sort of sleep-worship; he regards sleep as a panacea."-Elias Canetti, Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice
"If anyone was ever cognizant of the need and function of 'litanies', it was Kafka."-Elias Canetti, Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice
"The trouble is, I am not at peace with myself; I am not always "something," and if for once I am "something," I pay for it by "being nothing" for months on end.' —Kafka, quoted by Canetti"-Elias Canetti, Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice
"For him [Kafka], the most tormenting thing about his notion of marriage must have been its ruling out the possibility of one's ever becoming so small as to be able to vanish: one has to be there."-Elias Canetti, Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice
2. Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens
By: Michael Kumpfmüller
3.60
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
Im Sommer 1923 lernt der tuberkulosekranke Franz Kafka, als Dichter nur Eingeweihten bekannt, in ei… read more
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- german literature
- literature
- jewish
3. Voices in the Evening
By: Natalia Ginzburg
3.74
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
In a hushed Italian town after the Second World War, Elsa lives with her parents in the house where… read more
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4. Los suicidas del fin del mundo: Crónica de un pueblo patagónico
By: Leila Guerriero
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Entre 1997 y 1999, una oleada de suicidios conmovio a la pequena localidad petrolera de Las Heras, … read more
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- nonfiction
5. The Good Soldier Švejk
By: Jaroslav Hašek , Josef Lada , Cecil Parrott
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
In The Good Soldier Svejk, celebrated Czech writer and anarchist Jaroslav Hasek combined dazzling w… read more
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- literature
6. The Polish Boxer
By: Thomas Bunstead , Anne McLean , Daniel Hahn , Lisa Dillman , Eduardo Halfon
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
The Polish Boxercovers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a… read more
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- literature
7. The Zürau Aphorisms
By: Franz Kafka , Michael Hofmann , Roberto Calasso , Geoffrey Brock
3.68
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers are… read more
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- german literature
- nonfiction
- literature
"Usko kuin kirves. Yhtä raskas, yhtä kevyt."-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
"چهطور میتوان در دنیا شادمان بود مگر با گریختن از آن؟"-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
"از رقیب راستین، شجاعت بینهایتی به درون تو جریان دارد."-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
"Meidän on aina kärsittävä itse kaikki aiheuttamamme kärsimys."-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
8. Amerika
By: Franz Kafka
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who,… read more
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- german literature
- literature
9. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
By: Peter Handke , Jeffrey Eugenides , Ralph Manheim
3.56
Format: None pages,
Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life, which spanned the Nazi era, the … read more
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- german literature
- nonfiction
- biography
- literature
10. R.U.R.
By: Karel Čapek , Nigel Playfair , Paul Selver
3.83
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
R.U.R.--written in 1920--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word "Robot.… read more
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"Nobody can hate man more than man."-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.
"nothing is stranger to man than his own image"-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.
"Robot" is a machine that makes the functions of a man."-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.
"A man has to be a bit mad [...]. That's the best thing about him."-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.
11. Aliss at the Fire
By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more
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- literature
12. Monasterio
By: Eduardo Halfon
3.75
Format: 160 pages,
Agotados tras quince horas de vuelo, dos jovenes guatemaltecos esperan sus maletas en el aeropuerto… read more
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13. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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14. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes … read more
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15. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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- literature
"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
16. The Complete Stories
By: Franz Kafka , John Updike , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir , James Stern , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Nahum N. Glatzer , None
4.05
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the classic tales such as "The Me… read more
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17. Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk
By: Franz Kafka
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Collection
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18. The Red and the Black
By: Stendhal , None
3.86
Format: 577 pages, Paperback
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more
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- literature
"A good book is an event in my life."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
19. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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- german literature
- literature
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
20. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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- literature
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
21. The Books of Jacob
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.02
Format: 965 pages, Hardcover
The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more
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- literature
- jewish
"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
22. Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
By: Frans de Waal
4.16
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores sex and … read more
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- nonfiction
23. I Is Another: Septology III-V
By: Jon Fosse
4.44
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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- literature
"...I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it’s often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right..."-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often tha…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actuall…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
24. The Other Name: Septology I-II
By: Jon Fosse
4.06
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway.… read more
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- literature
"...there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything..."-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
"...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in i…"-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
25. The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings
By: Geoff Dyer
3.19
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An extended meditation on late style and last works from one of our greatest living critics (Kathry… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
26. Canción
By: Eduardo Halfon
3.69
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Una fría mañana de enero de 1967, en plena guerra civil de Guatemala, un comerciante judío y libané… read more
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- literature
27. Das zweite Schwert: Eine Maigeschichte
By: Peter Handke
3.19
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Zurückgekehrt nach jahrelangem Unterwegssein in die Gegend südwestlich von Paris, drängt es den Hel… read more
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28. Kafka: Die frühen Jahre
By: Reiner Stach
4.54
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
DER ABSCHLUSS DER GROSSEN KAFKA-BIOGRAPHIE »Das Beste, was in diesem Genre hervorgebracht werden… read more
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- german literature
- history
- biography
- jewish
- literature
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- literary criticism
"It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure act of will. An untold number had done this before him for religious reasons, but K…"-Reiner Stach, Kafka: Die frühen Jahre
"Kafka knew precisely what he did *not* want: he did not even consider becoming an attorney or using his linguistic gifts to earn a living. Having his afternoons free was more important to him than th…"-Reiner Stach, Kafka: Die frühen Jahre
29. Der Process (Kommentierte Ausgabe)
By: Franz Kafka
4.67
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Zum Kafka-Jahr 2024: der Auftaktband der ersten kommentierten Ausgabe von Kafkas Werken Auch nach e… read more
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30. Ucronia
By: Emmanuel Carrère
2.92
Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition
Nel romanzo di Sarban «Il richiamo del corno», un ufficiale della Marina britannica sperimenta l’in… read more
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- nonfiction
31. «Tú eres la tarea»: Aforismos
By: Franz Kafka
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Los aforismos y las imaginaciones que Franz Kafka elaboró en más de cien papelitos numerados durant… read more
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