{"product_id":"kafka-s-son-by-szilard-borbely","title":"'Kafka’s Son' by Szilárd Borbély","description":"\u003ch4\u003eWritten in a sequence of short prose sections, \u003cem\u003eKafka’s Son\u003c\/em\u003e moves through early twentieth-century Prague, Kafka’s relationship with his father Hermann, Jewish identity, language and exile.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe book was left among Borbély’s manuscripts at his death and retains that unfinished, unstable quality, despite now being reflected upon as a masterpiece. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eKafka is used as a double, a mirror of sorts, that Borbély can think about fathers and sons, Eastern Europe and inherited shame. Its voices slide between Kafka, Hermann, imagined scenes, biographical fragments and Borbély’s own experience; the boundary between literary criticism, fiction and self-portrait keeps dissolving. We see over time, how a person can finally know another, even within a family, and how writers, thinkers, the dead in general, become containers for people who come after them. The result is melancholic, sometimes dreamlike and quietly brutal, with Kafka’s famous paternal conflict widening into a meditation on Eastern European history and the long afterlife of familial damage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition \/ condition: Seagull Books, Calcutta, 2023. First English edition. Originally published in Hungarian as \u003cem\u003eKafka fia\u003c\/em\u003e. Translated by Ottilie Mulzet. Paperback. Very light shelf wear to covers and edges; internally clean and unmarked, binding firm. Near fine condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46167604527187,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/novels_novellas_38.png?v=1788654504","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/kafka-s-son-by-szilard-borbely","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}