Description:
Franz Kafka, the Eternal Son: A Biography is an exhaustive literary biography of one of the twentieth century's most iconic and admired writers. The book expertly traces the connections between Kafka's life and surroundings and his literary output.
Review Quotes:
"Peter-André Alt's Franz Kafka: The Eternal Son is a splendid conspectus of Kafka's life and work, admirable for its scope and precision. It is the single best study of Kafka if one wishes to read Kafka's writings as an imbrication of life experience and literary genius. Alt's study is a rich, redoubtable mine of information and wisdom arising from the most scrupulous scholarly attention to Kafka's work, body, and milieu." -Stanley Corngold, author of Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine
"A very welcome translation of excellent scholarship that forces us to question the relationship between an author's life and his work. In this crisp translation of the original, English readers will rediscover the joys of reading Kafka as he has never been presented before." -Richard Block, author of Echoes of a Queer Messianic: From Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain