By Geoffrey Brock
What are Kafka's tales approximately? Are they desires? Allegories? Symbols? issues that ensue on a daily basis? yet the place and while?
In this striking publication, Roberto Calasso units out to not dispel the secret yet to enable or not it's illuminated by means of its personal gentle. along with his specified imaginative and prescient, mind's eye, and highbrow acumen, Calasso makes an attempt to go into the circulation, the tortuous move, the body structure of the tales to find what they're intended to suggest and to delve into the main easy query: who's K.?
The end result of the author's lifelong fascination with Kafka, K. is a publication of important literary value, the fourth half in a piece in development of which the former volumes are The damage of Kasch, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, and Ka.
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