Max Brod Libri

Nessuno quanto Max Brod, lui stesso importante scrittore, poteva dirsi chiamato a narrare la vita di Franz Kafka. Amicissimo suo fin dalle aule dell'università, vissuto con lui in grande dimestichezza e in rapporti fraterni, custode dei manoscritti inediti e delle ultime volontà dello scrittore, ha potuto consegnarci una biografia del grande scrittore praghese veramente unica, indispensabile a chi voglia penetrare nella sua anima complicata e misteriosa. Se è vero che la definizione di biografia per questa opera di Max Brod è certamente giusta, in quanto così è stata concepita, e percorre la vita di Franz Kafka dalla nascita il 3 luglio 1883 fino alla morte il 3 giugno 1924, è anche vero che il termine oggi può prestarsi ad un equivoco un po' riduttivo, in quanto Max Brod narra l'amico, e in ogni pagina trapela non soltanto l'importante documentazione con cui questa biografia è stata costruita, ma anche la conoscenza diretta dell'uomo Kafka, quello di cui Brod annotava sul suo diario, all'epoca del loro primo incontro all'università, "Le parole gli escono di bocca come un bastone".

Il sedicenne Karl Rossmann viene mandato dai genitori in America, come punizione per aver sedotto una cameriera nella natia Praga. Accolto in casa di un ricco zio, ne è poi bruscamente scacciato senza una vera colpa. Sempre senza colpa, verrà , verrà licenziato dall'albergo in cui aveva trovato lavoro come lift, finendo per essere assunto nel "Grande teatro" di Oklahoma. A questo punto il romanzo si interrompe. Incompiuto come Il Castello, America è da alcuni considerato il più "vivace" romanzo kafkiano. Ma a ben vedere, la storia trasmette al lettore la stessa carica di angoscia degli altri due romanzi e il candido e cavalleresco Rossmann, così ingiustamente perseguitato,ricorda il tono assurdo e surreale di alcuni personaggi di Chaplin e di Buster Keaton.

Kafka's diaries cover the period from 1910 to 1923 and reveal the inner world in which he lived. He describes his fear, isolation and frustration, his feelings of guilt and his sense of being an outcast. He also describes the father he worshipped and the woman he could not bring himself to marry.

These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a penetrating look into life in Prague and into Kafka’s accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he worshipped, and the woman he could not bring himself to marry, his sense of guilt, and his feelings of being an outcast. They offer an account of a life of almost unbearable intensity.From the Trade Paperback edition.The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-13 translated from the German by Joseph KreshThe Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-23 translated from the German by Martin Greenberg with the cooperation of Hannah Arendt

The diaries offer an intimate glimpse into Franz Kafka's thoughts and experiences from 1910 to 1913, revealing his creative process and personal struggles. This collection serves as a valuable resource for fans, providing deeper insights into the mind of one of the 20th century's most influential writers.

On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he will be set free, but must make regular appearances at a court in the attic of a tenement building while his trial proceeds. Although he never comes to know the particulars of his case, Josef K. finds his life taken over by the opaque bureaucratic procedures and is tormented by the psychological pressures exerted by his legal nightmare. Published the year after the author's death, but written ten years earlier, The Trial is the most acclaimed of Kafka's three novels, and is both a haunting meditation on freedom and the powerlessness of the individual in the face of state power, and an ominous prefiguration of the totalitarian excesses of the twentieth century.

Concerns the relationship between the great Danish astronomer and the younger, intellectually superior Johannes Kepler. This book talks of a conflict that becomes an emblem of the struggle between a weakened tradition and a self- conscious modernity. It conveys the intimate, emotional reality of a seventeenth-century political conflict.

The first ever translation of Max Brod’s novel (originally published in German in Berlin, 1911) which portrays the prosperous and settled world of assimilated Prague Jewry before the First World War – the world not only of Max Brod but also of his life-long friend, the writer Franz Kafka.Although now overshadowed by Kafka’s success, Brod was an accomplished and prolific author in his own right. This novel is set in the spa town of Teplitz (Teplice) and is a cameo of he lives of prosperous Jewish families before the First World War. It draws a compelling and poignant picture of the normal everyday lives of its characters, so touchingly unaware of the traumas to come in the following decades when their communities would be shattered beyond repair.