Max brod kafka biography
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&#;[This] biography fryst vatten the primary source of our knowledge of Kafka&#;s personal life and character, and fryst vatten invaluable to anyone at all interested in the mind of the Czech genius.&#;&#;Alfred Kazin, New York Herald Tribune
In many ways, Franz Kafka was as anonymous and enigmatic as the heroes of his novels. Perhaps no biography can entirely clarify the enigma; but this one helps shed light on a very complicated man.
Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka&#;s and remained closely tied to him until Kafka&#;s death in He was undoubtedly the one man whom Kafka trusted more than any other, and it fryst vatten to Brod, as his literary executor and editor, that we are indebted for rescuing and bringing to light Kafka&#;s work. Out of a lifelong devoted friendship, Brod drew this konto of Kafka&#;s youth, family and friends, his struggle to recognize himself as a writer, his sickness, and his last days.
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Franz Kafka: A Biography
Puede que no sea el mejor texto sobre Kafka, y realmente creo que es el peor. Y puede que esté escrito desde una trinchera, más bien desde un búnker de admiración, que lo intoxica todo. Es obvio que sus datos no sólo no son objetivos, sino que Max Brod oculta información, manipula la vida de Kafka, lo pedestaliza, lo remodela a sus anchas para crear el mito que, desde entonces, desde este texto, ya será para siempre y para nosotros.
Y Brod comete, además, un enorme pecado al narrarnos la vida de Kafka: a veces aburre. Es moroso, abruma con sus notas a pie, de una densidad intolerable que va más allá de lo que un editor juicioso podría permitir, se pierde en insignificancias y vela sucesos trascendentes Pero ambos eran amigos. Era el amigo de Kafka, de eso no queda duda, y por ello, aunque fuera sólo por eso, por la visión que de Kafka tiene quien estuvo con él, junto a él mucho tiempo, el libro ya merece la pena.
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Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (–)
Not to be confused with Max Brode.
Max Brod (Hebrew: מקס ברוד; 27 May – 20 December ) was a Bohemian-born Israeli author, composer, and journalist.
Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is best remembered as the friend and biographer of writer Franz Kafka. Kafka named Brod as his literary executor, instructing Brod to burn his unpublished work upon his death. Brod refused and had Kafka's works published instead.[1]
In , as the Nazis occupiedPrague, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, taking with him a suitcase of Kafka's papers, many of them unpublished notes, diaries, and sketches.
Biography
[edit]Max Brod was born in Prague, then part of the Kingdom of Bohemia in Austria-Hungary, now the capital of the Czech Republic. At the age of four, Brod was diagnosed with a severe spinal curvature and spent a year in corrective harness; despite this he would be a hunchback his ent