Life after Kafka / Magdaléna Platzová ; translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Platzová, Magdaléna, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Zucker, Alex, translator.

Standardized Title:

Život po Kafkovi. English

Language:

Czech

English

Subjects (All):

Germans--United States--Fiction.

Women immigrants--United States--Fiction.

Bauer, Felice, 1887-1960--Fiction.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Relations with women--Fiction.

Genre:

Biographical fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

251 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Franz Kafka scholars know Felice Bauer, his onetime fiancée, through his Letters to Felice, as little more than a woman with a raucous laugh and a taste for bourgeois comforts. Life After Kafka is her story. The novel begins in 1935 as Felice flees with her children from Hitler's Berlin, following her family and members of Kafka's entourage--including Grete Bloch, Max Brod, and Salman Schocken--as they try to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. Years later, a man claiming to be Kafka's son approaches Felice's son in Manhattan and the drama surrounding Kafka's letters to Felice begins. While taking the measure of literary fame's long shadow, Life After Kafka depicts the magic and poison of memories, and what we cling to when all else is lost. Most of all, it illuminates the bravery required to move forward through the shattered remains of one world to rebuild a life in a new one"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781954276291

195427629X

OCLC:

1394890876

Publisher Number:

99996868447