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Franz Kafka: Der ewige Sohn. Eine Biographie.(A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia)(Book review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20070401
Author:Preece, Julian

Franz Kafka: Der ewige Sohn. Eine Biographie. By PETER-ANDRE ALT. Munich: Beck. 2005. 762 pp. 34.90 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-406-53441-6.

A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia. By RICHARD T. GRAY, RUTH V. GROSS, ROLF J. GOEBEL, and CLAYTON KOELB. Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press. 2005. xlvi+344 pp. 71 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-313-30375-3.

Every biographer of a literary author faces the problem of how to deal with the literary works. If he leaves them to one side to concentrate on the dramas of the life, then the life risks lacking purpose. If he draws on them as source ...

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