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Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life

10 best books like Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life (James Hawes): Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts, The American Years, The Sacred Wood, The Book of J, A Personal Anthology, My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, How to Mellify a Corpse: and Other Human Stories of Ancient Science and Superstition, AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State

Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts
AuthorWilliam H. Gass
ISBN0307595846
A dazzling new collection of essays—on reading, writing, form, and thought—from one of America’s master writers.
 
It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass’s lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more analytical, as he ponders the work of...
The American Years
AuthorBrian Boyd
ISBN0691024715
“...every dimension presupposes a medium within which it can act, and if, in the spiral unwinding of things, space warps into something akin to time, and time, in its turn, warps into something akin to thought, then, surely, another dimension follows.”
-Speak, Memory



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The Sacred Wood
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0571190898
This seminal book, Eliot's first collection of literary criticism, appeared in London in 1920, two years before The Waste Land. It contains some of his most influential early essays and reviews, among them 'Tradition and the Individual Talent', 'Hamlet and his Problems', and Eliot's thoughts on...
The Book of J
AuthorHarold Bloom
ISBN0802141919
J is the title that scholars ascribe to the nameless writer they believe is responsible for the text, written between 950 & 900, on which Genesis, Exodus & Numbers is based. In The Book of J, Bloom & Rosenberg draw the J text out of the surrounding material & present it as the seminal classic...
A Personal Anthology
AuthorJorge Luis Borges
ISBN0802130771
After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work—short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant “sketches,” which, in Borges’s hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters.

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My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories
AuthorFrank O'Connor
ISBN0141187875
This Collection of Stories includes the following:
The Genius
My Oedipus Complex
First Confession
The Study of History
The Man of the World
Guests of the Nation
Machine-Gun Corps in action
Soirée Chez une Belle Jeune Fille
Jumbo's Wife
The Cornet-Player...
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
AuthorLionel Trilling
ISBN0151511977
The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling's essays...
Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
AuthorRainer Maria Rilke
ISBN0060907274
This selection includes the original poems in German with their translations and commentary.

Contents:
I live my life --
I have many brothers --
We don't dare --
I love the dark hours --
You darkness, that I come from --
I have faith --
I am too alone --
You see,...
How to Mellify a Corpse: and Other Human Stories of Ancient Science and Superstition
AuthorVicki León
ISBN0802717020
In How to Mellify a Corpse, Vicki León brings her particular hybrid of history and humor to the entwined subjects of science and superstition in the ancient world, from Athens and Rome to Mesopotamia, the Holy Land, Egypt, and Carthage. León covers subjects as diverse as astronomy and astrology,...
AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State
AuthorCharles Freeman
'“We shall believe in the single deity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost under the concept of equal majesty and of the Holy Trinity. We command that persons who follow this rule shall embrace the name of catholic Christians. The rest, however, whom we judge demented and insane, shall carry the...
Literature and the Gods
AuthorRoberto Calasso
ISBN0375725431
Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense...
The View from the Ground
AuthorMartha Gellhorn
ISBN0871132125
First published in 1959, but now offered in a revised and expanded edition, The View from the Ground presents over six decades of Gellhorn's ruminations on political, civil, and social issues and crises, from a lynching in the American South in the 1930s through a recent visit to Cuba to see what is new...
Lectures on Don Quixote
AuthorVladimir Nabokov
ISBN0156495406
A master teacher and critic as well as a novelist, Nabokov created a fastidiously shaped series of lectures based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Spanish classic, recording his insights as he proceeded. Since his teaching methods relied heavily on quotation from the author under discussion,...
Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing
AuthorThomas Merton
ISBN1590303482
When Thomas Merton entered a Trappist monastery in December 1941, he turned his back on secular life?including a very promising literary career. He sent his journals, a novel-in-progess, and copies of all his poems to his mentor, Columbia professor Mark Van Doren, for safe keeping, fully expecting...
Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
AuthorFranz Kafka
ISBN0805209492
Collected after his death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, here are more than two decades' worth of Franz Kafka's letters to the men and women with whom he maintained his closest personal relationships, from his years as a student in Prague in the early 1900s to his final months in the sanatorium...
Franz Kafka: a biography
AuthorMax Brod
ISBN0306806703
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...
Alone with All That Could Happen: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom about the Craft of Fiction
AuthorDavid Jauss
ISBN1582975388
In a satisfying story or novel, all of the pieces seem to fit together so effortlessly, so seamlessly, that it's easy to find yourself wondering, "How on earth did the author do this?" The answer is simple: He sat alone at his desk, considered an array of options, and made smart, careful choices.

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Perempuan Rumah Kenangan
AuthorM. Aan Mansyur
ISBN9793457805
“I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.” ~Philip Roth~

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Nothing Natural
AuthorJenny Diski
ISBN1860499422
Won’t do (anything close to) a full review here, but (for whoever might be listening/reading) I did want to “poke at” this book (and author) just a bit.

Diski had a tremendously difficult and traumatic life: a matter of record.

She was something close to “rescued” by Doris...
Conversations with Kafka
AuthorGustav Janouch
As Francine Prose notes in her preface, Janouch was only seventeen years old when he met Franz Kafka. They "fell into the habit of taking long strolls through the city, strolls on which Kafka seems to have said many amazing, incisive, literary, and personal things to...the teenage Boswell of Prague."...
Give it Up! and Other Short Stories
AuthorPeter Kuper
ISBN1561634492
Stuff I Read - Give it Up! and Other Short Stories by Peter Kuper and Franz Kafka

So this was a weird find at a library book sale, but as I am a fan of graphic novels and Kafka both, I couldn't resist picking it up and bringing it home. And I must say I'm not disappointed. It is a strange and probably none-too-cheery...
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