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The Zürau Aphorisms (German: Die Zürauer Aphorismen) are 109 aphorisms of Franz Kafka, written from September 1917 to April 1918 and published by his friend Max Brod in 1931, after his death. They are selected from his writing in Zürau in West Bohemia (now Siřem in the community of Blšany ) where he stayed with his sister Ottla , suffering ...
- Franz Kafka, Roberto Calasso
- 1931
Feb 1, 2022 · The Zürau Aphorisms (German: Die Zürauer Aphorismen) is a collection of 109 aphorisms of Franz Kafka, written from September 1917 to April 1918 and published by his friend Max Brod in 1931, after his death.
3,828 ratings328 reviews. The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers are now gathered into a single volume with an introduction and afterword by the celebrated writer and publisher Roberto Calasso.
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Summary. Franz Kafka spent eight months at his sister's house in Zürau between September 1917 and April 1918, enduring the onset of tuberculosis. Illness paradoxically set him free to write, in a series of philosophical fragments, his settling of accounts with life, marriage, his family, guilt and man's condition.
Apr 27, 2022 · The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka is not the first translation into English of Kafka’s “Zürau aphorisms,” but this new edition differs from all older ones in two notable respects. First and foremost, Reiner Stach’s meticulous and astute interpretive guidance, which follows the translation of each aphorism, situates the individual aphorisms ...
Jan 11, 2012 · The Zürau aphorisms of Franz Kafka : Franz Kafka : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Feb 28, 2011 · The Zurau Aphorisms. Franz Kafka. Random House, Feb 28, 2011 - Literary Collections - 160 pages. Franz Kafka spent eight months at his sister's house in Zürau between September 1917 and...
