Magdaléna Platzová Life after Kafka recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman over Franz Kafka van de Tsjechische schrijfster. Op 6 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij Bellevue Literary Press de Engelse vertaling van de roman Život po Kafkovi van de uit Tsjechië afkomstige auteur Magdaléna Platzová. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.
Magdaléna Platzová Life after Kafka recensie en review
- “A deeply empathetic story of survival, exile, and belonging. Magdaléna Platzová allows Felice Bauer to step out of Kafka’s shadow and, in the process, she recognizes that there is always so much more than one truth. This is a powerful, kaleidoscopic literary novel.” (Column McCann)
- “Kafka afficionados will thrill to this. . . . Equal parts family memoir and a tantalizing publishing detective story, Life After Kafka raises questions about memory, privacy, and the impact on each by the passage of time.” (Historical Novels Review)
Life after Kafka
- Auteur: Magdaléna Platzová (Tsjechië)
- Soort boek: Tsjechische roman
- Origineel: Život po Kafkovi (2022)
- Engelse vertaling: Alex Zucker
- Uitgever: Bellevue Literary Press
- Verschijnt: 6 augustus 2024
- Omvang: 256 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: $ 17,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de roman over Franz Kafka van Magdaléna Platzová
Franz Kafka scholars know Felice Bauer, his onetime fiancée, through his Letters to Felice, as little more than a woman with a raucous laugh and a taste for bourgeois comforts. Life After Kafka is her story. The novel begins in 1935 as Felice flees with her children from Hitler’s Berlin, following her family and members of Kafka’s entourage—including Grete Bloch, Max Brod, and Salman Schocken—as they try to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. Years later, a man claiming to be Kafka’s son approaches Felice’s son in Manhattan and the drama surrounding Kafka’s letters to Felice begins.
While taking the measure of literary fame’s long shadow, Life After Kafka depicts the magic and poison of memories, and what we cling to when all else is lost. Most of all, it illuminates the bravery required to move forward through the shattered remains of one world to rebuild life in a new one.
Magdaléna Platzová (8 maart 1972, Praag) is the author of several books, including three novels published in English: Aaron’s Leap, a Lidové Noviny Book of the Year Award finalist, The Attempt, longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and a Czech Book Award finalist, and Life After Kafka, a Magnesia Litera award finalist. Her fiction has also appeared in A Public Space and Words Without Borders. Platzová grew up in the Czech Republic; studied in Washington, DC, and England; received her MA in Philosophy at Charles University in Prague; and has taught at New York University’s Gallatin School. She is now based in Lyon, France.
