Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt

Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and GuiltA highly original and engaging appraisal of Kafkas life, work, legacy, and thought Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existencein his many letters, in his extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating book investigates some of the sources of Kafkas personal anguish and its complex reflections in his imaginary world.

Taking George Orwell's famous essay

Jon Batiste

Everyone could be a spy

these hours of conversation offer a revelatory and indispensable look at the self-described "besotted aesthete" and "obsessed moralist

Why robots can swim and fly but find it difficult to walk

I was ten years old

and anywhere music exists – to show that music-making is not just the act of a solitary composer in a studio

A leading expert on the twentieth-century history of Berlin

and on street corners

Tracks include: "Love Me Do

His images of Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore are also important

by Seamus Heaney