This groundbreaking study of Franz Kafka's legacy, to be published during the centenary of his death in 2024-explores Kafka's life and influence in an entirely new and dynamic way.
This new biography of Franz Kafka's life, literature, and legacy will be published for the centenary of Kafka's death in 2024. It is the first major biography of Kafka, a titan of international literature studied and enjoyed by thousands around the world, in some years.
One hundred years after his death of tuberculosis at the age of forty-one, readers all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka, perhaps revisiting a favorite, or encountering Kafka for the first time. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects. Who, exactly, was Franz Kafka?
Karolina Watroba, the first Germanist ever elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, tells Kafka's story beyond the boundaries of language, time, and space, traveling from the Prague of Kafka's birth to the contemporary writers in East Asia whose award-winning novels are in part homages to the great man himself. “Metamorphoses” presents a unique journey through Kafka's life, drawing together literary scholarship with the responses of his readers throughout the last century. It is at once an exploration of Kafka's life and an entirely new way of approaching literary history.
