kafka in love

Kafka was an attractive, slender, and elegant man--something of a dandy, who captivated his friends and knew how to charm women. He seemed to have had four important love affairs: Felice, Julie, Milen

A collection of five selected plays by playwright Hal Lieberman, including "Brother Faustus," a play in verse that won a Mellen Poetry Press award, and "Kafka in Love,&q

Kafka's writings are characterized by an extreme sensitivity manifested in absurdity, alienation, and gallows humor, and these two particular collections of short pieces, A Country Doctor (1919) and A

The director of San Diego University's Kafka Project chronicles the life of Dora Diamant, the daughter of Polish Hasidic parents who fled in search of Zionism and landed at Kafka's side as his lover d

A powerful portrait of loss, love, and survival in Nazi Germany.Kafka’s great love, Milena Jesenka, to whom he wrote his most passionate letters, was a beautiful, politically committed, talented free

Now back in print, Franz Kafka's letters to his fiancé Felice Bauer, written over the course of their impassioned but doomed relationship, are "some of the most heartrending 'love letters' ever writte

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER• A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER From the author ofNorwegian WoodandHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldcomes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times."Haruki Murakami invented 21st-century fiction." —The New York Times • "More than any author since Kafka, Murakami appreciates the genuine strangeness of our real world."—San Francisco Chronicle • "Murakami is masterful." —Los Angeles TimesWhen a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he is heartbroken – and determined to find the imaginary town where he suspects she has taken up residence. Thus begins a lifelong search that takes the man into middle age, to a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own, and on a journey between the real world and this otherworld: a shadowless city where unicorns roam and willow trees grow.There he finds his belov