THE YIELD

The Yield is a once-in-a-generation reinterpretation of the oeuvre of Franz Kafka. At the same time, it is a powerful new entry in t he debates about the supposed secularity of the modern age. Kafka is one of the most admired writers of the last century, but this b ook presents us with a Kafka that few will recognize. It does so through a fine-grained analysis of the three hundred posthumously p ublished aphorisms, parables, and images the writer penned after the end of World War I, when he had just been diagnosed with tuberc ulosis.T...[Llegir més]