9780805212655-0805212655-Aphorisms (The Schocken Kafka Library)

Aphorisms (The Schocken Kafka Library)

ISBN-13: 9780805212655
ISBN-10: 0805212655
Author: Franz Kafka
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Schocken
Format: Hardcover 144 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780805212655
ISBN-10: 0805212655
Author: Franz Kafka
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Schocken
Format: Hardcover 144 pages

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Aphorisms (The Schocken Kafka Library) (ISBN-13: 9780805212655 and ISBN-10: 0805212655), written by authors Franz Kafka, was published by Schocken in 2015. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Free Will & Determinism (Philosophy, Metaphysics) books. You can easily purchase or rent Aphorisms (The Schocken Kafka Library) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Free Will & Determinism books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.47.

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The aphorism eludes definition: it can appear to be a random jotting or a more polished observation. Whether arbitrary fragment or crystalline shard, an aphorism captures the inception of a thought. Franz Kafka composed aphorisms during two periods in his life. A series of 109 was written between September 1917 and April 1918, in Zürau, West Bohemia, while Kafka was on a visit to his sister Ottla, hoping for a brief respite following the diagnosis of the tuberculosis virus that would eventually claim his life. They were originally published in 1931, seven years after his death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, under the title Betrachtungen über Sünde, Hoffnung, Leid, und den wahren Wag (Reflections on Sin, Hope, Suffering, and the True Way). The second sequence of aphorisms, numbering 41, originally appeared as entries in Kafka’s diary from January 6 to February 29, 1920. They, too, were published posthumously, under the title “Er”: Aufzeichnungen aus dem Jahr 1920 (“He”: Reflections from the Year 1920).

Kafka’s aphorisms are fascinating glimpses into the lure and the enigma of the form itself.

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