2 options
Kafka : a biography / Ronald Hayman.
LIBRA - Rare PT2621.A26 Z7463 1982 Potok copy
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
Van Pelt Library PT2621.A26 Z7463 1982
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayman, Ronald, 1932-2019.
- Standardized Title:
- K, a biography.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
- Kafka, Franz.
- Authors, Austrian--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, Austrian.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 349 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.
- Contents:
- The turning point: 1912
- After the Ghetto
- Gymnasium
- University
- Good conduct
- The new job
- The ladder in mid-air
- Holiday and malaise
- The Yiddish actors
- Bachelor life
- Felice
- Captive insect
- Grete Bloch
- Trial
- Exodus
- Hopeful interlude
- The modern Kabbalist
- Haemorrhage
- Zürau
- Julie
- Milena
- Matliary
- The problem of space
- Dora
- Hunger artist.
- Notes:
- "First published in Great Britain in 1981 under the title: K, a biography by George Weidenfled and Nicolson Ltd.".
- "First published in the United States in 1982 by Oxford University Press, New York."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-339) and index.
- "Jacket design by Sigrid Spaeth."
- Previously published as: K.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1982".
- ISBN:
- 0195202791 :
- OCLC:
- 7835179
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.