Book description
What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols?
Things that happen every day? But where and when?
In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the
mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique
vision, imagination, and intellectual acumen, Calasso attempts to
enter the flow, the tortuous movement, the physiology of the stories
to discover what they are meant to signify and to delve into the most
basic question: Who is K.?
The culmination of the author's lifelong fascination with Kafka,
K. is a book of significant literary importance, the fourth
part in a work in progress of which the previous volumes are The
Ruin of Kasch, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, and Ka.
Born in Florence, Roberto Calasso lives in Milan, where he is
publisher of Adelphi. He is the author of
The Ruin of Kasch
,
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
, which was the winner of the Prix Veillon and the Prix du Meilleur
Livre Etranger,
Literature and the Gods,
Ka
and, most recently,
Tiepolo Pink.
