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Actors United States Biography Authors, Austrian 20th century Biography Kafka, Franz 1883-1924 Kafka, Franz 1883-1924 Adaptations Kafka, Franz 1883-1924 Film and video adaptations Kafka, Franz 1883-1924 Translations into English Motion picture producers and directors United States Biography Philosophy, Modern, in literature Reiner, Carl 1922- World politics in literatureStach, Reiner.
Summary: This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's life and works, draws readers in with a nearly cinematic power, zooming in for extreme close-ups of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 833.912 STAKuper, Peter
Summary: Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illustrating his stories in 1988. Initially drawn to the master's dark humor, Kuper adapted the stories over the years to plumb their deeper truths. Kuper's style deliberately evokes Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel, contemporaries of Kafka whose wordless novels captured much of the same claustrophobia and mania as Kafka's tales....
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KUPKafka, Franz
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAFStach, Reiner
Summary: "How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography answers that question with more facts, detail, and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883-1924). It tells the story of the years from his birth in Prague to the beginning of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAFKA, FRANZ STABrod, Max
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1947
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAFKA, FRANZ BROSummary: Portrays the experiences of a young man who is mysteriously arrested by agents of the police for an unspecific crime and is prepared for questioning and trial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainent, Inc. 1999
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TRIHaneke, Michael
Summary: A land surveyor tries to convince the local government of a small mountain village of the legitimacy of his position, but the more he struggles, the more obstructive the village's bureaucracy becomes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CASKafka, Franz
Summary: Collects fourty-four stories by Franz Kafka including "The Stoker," "The Judgement," "First Sorrow," and "The Hunger Artist."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAFKafka, Franz
Summary: Franz Kafka's enigmatic, deadpan, and deeply pessimistic stories are central to literary modernism. In 'The Metamorphosis', the estrangement of everyday life becomes corporealized when Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant bug and wonders how he is going to get to work on time. Kafka inverts the implied degradation of a man's transformation into an animal in 'A Report of the Academy', an ape's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1952
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAFMedhat, Katayoun
Summary: "Meet Franz Kafka, conflicted cop, hapless investigator, wide-eyed cynic on an odyssey across the Navajo reservation, pursuing a murder case"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Leapfrog Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDSummary: This program from the Famous Authors series takes a close look at the life and literature of Franz Kafka. Contextualizing Kafka's upbringing in turn-of the-century Prague, the video illuminates how the politics of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and coming from a Jewish family shaped his life. Young friends Hugo Bergmann and Oskar Pollak were important influences and the first readers for the young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: An oversized anthology of dark and bizarre tales written throughout the past century includes entries by international best-sellers and award-winners, including Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and Franz Kafka.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIReiner, Carl
Summary: The award-winning actor and director recalls the major events in his life through a series of short stories, including "Sidney Bechet and His Jazz Band Meet Franz Kafka" and "Mary Tyler Moore Made Me Quake."
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003