| Magic Realism Writers: Robertson Davies, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jose Saramago Contributor(s): Source Wikipedia (Author), Books, LLC (Editor), Group, Books (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1155949323 ISBN-13: 9781155949321 Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series OUR PRICE: $20.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| Publisher Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 95. Chapters: Robertson Davies, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jose Saramago, Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Bulgakov, Magic realism, Isabel Allende, Joanne Harris, Janet Frame, Gustav Meyrink, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Miguel Angel Asturias, Haruki Murakami, Alejo Carpentier, Mario de Andrade, Kenzabur e, Gunter Grass, Paul Magrs, Julio Cortazar, Yasunari Kawabata, Jonathan Safran Foer, Carlos Fuentes, Daniil Kharms, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Juan Rulfo, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Edgar Brau, Louis de Bernieres, Mario Benedetti, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Yasutaka Tsutsui, K b Abe, Mark Helprin, Jeanette Winterson, Sh ji Terayama, Patrick Suskind, Amanda Filipacchi, Laura Esquivel, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Kelly Link, Victor Pelevin, Onat Kutlar, Nancy Springer, Daniel Kehlmann, Alice Hoffman, Ben Okri, Iimani David, Robert Poulet, Franz Roh, Sara Gallardo, Carlos Thorne Boas, Eugenia Rico, Jose Donoso, James Canon, Kenji Nakagami, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Hubert Lampo, Keith Donohue, Han Shaogong, Michal Ajvaz, Rae Bryant, Ikezawa Natsuki, Francisco Mendez, R. M. Koster, Eden Robinson, David J. Schwartz. Excerpt: Franz Kafka (German pronunciation: 3 July 1883 - 3 June 1924) was a culturally influential German-language novelist. Contemporary critics and academics regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century. The term "Kafkaesque" has become part of the English language. Kafka was born to middle class German-speaking Ashkenazi Jewish parents in Prague, Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The house in which he was born, on the Old Town Square next to Prague's Church of St Nicholas, now contains a permanent exhibition devoted to the author. Most of Kafka's writing, much of it unfinished at the time of his death, was published posthumously. Kafka at the age of fiveKafka was born into ... |
