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Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Murray was born in Liverpool in 1952. He has written acclaimed biographies of Bruce Chatwin, Matthew Arnold and the poet Andrew Marvell. He is married and lives in the Welsh Marches. Klappentext * First general biography in UK for twenty years of one of the defining writers of the 20th century - Franz Kafka. '[An] admirable and conscientious biography.' LITERARY REVIEW Nicholas Murray's KAFKA restores the great writer to the human world, not just of relationships, but of actual societies, thus delivering his masterpieces from appropriation by theological and philosophical exegetes.' TLS 'Nicholas Murray does what all decent biographers should do: leaves the reader hungry to fo back to the haunting and permanently elusive work that makes the unhappy life so extraordinary.' SUNDAY TIMES 'Kafka's writing didn't meet his inner demands for perfection...But when Murray quotes from him, you want to rush off and read more instantly. This makes KAFKA the best kind of literary biography.' INDEPENDENT 'Murray's work is necessarily various and surely the most truthful available.' THE TIMES 'Anyone lookig for a balanced and readable account of his [Kafka's] life and work will find Murray and engaging, conscientious and sympathetic guide.' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'A soulful, searching book, faultlessly researched and beautifully written.' OBSERVER Zusammenfassung * First general biography in UK for twenty years of one of the defining writers of the 20th century - Franz Kafka.
