A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world.

恩斯特·帕维尔 | Ernst Pawel 美国作家。1920年生于布雷斯劳（即现今波兰的弗罗茨瓦夫），1933年随家人逃离纳粹德国，迁至南斯拉夫，四年后移居美国纽约。二战中曾服役于军方情报部门，担任翻译。战后从纽约城市大学获得学士学位，并进入纽约人寿保险公司工作，直至1982年退休。他利用业余时间写作，作品包括小说、人物传记，以及大量随笔和书评。1994年，因罹患肺癌，逝于纽约长岛。

Alt的传记被认为优于Stach的三部曲，Alt更注重卡夫卡的艺术生命和精神生活，而Stach则注重发掘卡夫卡完整的日常生活，甚至包括他的性生活情况。

Alt的传记被认为优于Stach的卡夫卡传三部曲，Alt更注重卡夫卡的艺术生命和精神生活，而Stach则更注重发掘卡夫卡完整的日常生活，甚至包括他的性生活情况。

Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka's and remained closely tied to him until Kafka's death in 1924. He was undoubtedly the one man whom Kafka trusted more than any other, and it is 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 ...(展开全部)

We live in a world of technical systems designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by technically trained personnel—a unique social organization that largely determines our way of life. Andrew Feenberg’s theory of social rationality represents both the threats of technocratic modernity and the potential for democratic change.

彼得–安德列•阿尔特，德国文学学者，柏林自由大学前校长，曾在剑桥大学、普林斯顿大学和意大利多所大学做访问学者，以写《席勒传》出名，曾获马尔巴哈席勒奖。

本書作者安德依．馬金尼，以《法蘭西遺囑》榮獲一九九五年法國龔固爾獎和梅第西獎，是史上第一位同時獲得這兩大文學獎肯定的非法籍作家。 這本有著如詩般節奏的《生命的樂章》，是他的最新傑作，內容如歌如泣，讓人不忍釋卷。

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) lived through one of the most turbulent periods in modern history, witnessing a world war, the dissolution of an empire and the foundation of a new nation state. But the early twentieth century was also a time of social progress and aesthetic experimentation. Kafka's novels and short stories reflect their author's keen but critical engagement with the bi...(展开全部)

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) lived through one of the most turbulent periods in modern history, witnessing a world war, the dissolution of an empire and the foundation of a new nation state. But the early twentieth century was also a time of social progress and aesthetic experimentation. Kafka's novels and short stories reflect their author's keen but critical engagement with the bi...(展开全部)