Austrian Novelists

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Franz Kafka, Bertha Von Suttner, Stefan Zweig, Robert Musil, Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, Elfriede Jelinek, Thomas Bernhard, Waris Dirie, Gregor Von Rezzori, Walter Von Molo, Ludwig Anzengruber, Joseph Roth, Joseph Delmont, Heimito Von Doderer, Felix Braun, Franz Karl Ginzkey, Alfred Kubin, Leo Perutz, Robert Hamerling, Joseph Von Sonnenfels, Hertha Pauli, Jakov Lind, Reuben Asher Braudes, Susanna Kubelka, Edmund Blum, Aloisia Kirschner, John Wray, Albert Ehrenstein, Annemarie Selinko, Helene Migerka, Lilian Faschinger, Hermynia Zur Mhlen. Excerpt: Franz Kafka (German pronunciation: 3 July 1883 3 June 1924) is one of the most influential fiction writers of the early 20th century; a novelist and writer of short stories whose works, only after his death, came to be regarded as one of the major achievements of 20th century literature. He was born to middle class German-speaking Jewish parents in Prague, Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The house in which he was born, on the Old Town Square next to Prague's Church of St Nicholas, today contains a permanent exhibition devoted to the author. Kafka's workthe novels The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927), as well as short stories including The Metamorphosis (1915) and In the Penal Colony (1914)is now collectively considered to be among the most original bodies of work in modern Western literature. Much of his work, unfinished at the time of his death, was published posthumously. The writer's name has led to the term "Kafkaesque" being used in the English language. Kafka at the age of fiveKafka was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Prague, the capital of Bohemia. The former house of Franz Kafka. It now stands as a memorial open... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=10858