Life After Kafka by Alex Zucker Paperback Book

Description: Life After Kafka by Alex Zucker, Magdalna Platzov A novel of Felice Bauer, Franz Kafkas first fiance, and the story behind Letters to FeliceFranz Kafka scholars know Felice Bauer, his onetime fiance, 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 Hitlers Berlin, following her family and members of Kafkas 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 Kafkas son approaches Felices son in Manhattan and the drama surrounding Kafkas letters to Felice begins.While taking the measure of literary fames 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. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Magdalna Platzov is the author of several books, including three novels published in English: Aarons Leap, a Lidov 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. Platzov 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 Universitys Gallatin School. She is now based in Lyon, France. Review "A tantalizing mystery." —New York Times Book Review"A powerful re-imagining of what Kafkas life and work mean now." —New York Sun"A bold exploration of exile, literary history, and the price paid for being part of it." —WOSU All Sides Weekend: Books & The Longest Chapter"A remarkable act of fictional recuperation that enables a new generation of Kafka-obsessed readers to feel Felices presence yet again." —Jewish Book Council"Striking. . . . Incredibly evocative. . . . Life After Kafka, with its mix of research and imagination, arrives at an auspicious moment." —Words Without Borders"Brilliantly envision[s] the Kafka-Bauer relationship." —On the Seawall"Meticulously researched, vividly envisioned. . . . The writing deftly renders both the texture of life before and after two world wars and the persistent longing of refugees for a home that no longer exists." —Washington Independent Review of Books"Life After Kafka is fascinating for the way that Platzová makes literature itself the main hero. . . . By canceling the enduring distinction between fiction and nonfiction, Platzová options a radical methodology of writing that reveals the unanswerable questions composing our present." —Asymptote"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"Affecting." —Library Journal (starred review)"Enchanting. . . . As Felice Bauer receives her spotlight, Platzová deserves one, too." —Publishers Weekly"Elegantly translated. . . . An extraordinary read from start to finish." —Midwest Book Review"A deeply empathetic story of survival, exile, and belonging. Magdaléna Platzová allows Felice Bauer to step out of Kafkas shadow and, in the process, she recognizes that there is always so much more than one truth. This is a powerful, kaleidoscopic literary novel." —Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin and Apeirogon"This elegantly narrated novel, full of fascinations, paints an impassioned and poignant portrait of Felice Bauer and other exiles connected to Franz Kafka and charts a compelling cartography of their now vanished world." —Benjamin Balint, author of Kafkas Last Trial and Bruno Schulz"In Life After Kafka, Magdaléna Platzová movingly portrays Felice Bauers valiant efforts to forge a new life for herself and her family in the wake of historical catastrophe, even as she grapples with whether to reveal an intimate and painful chapter of her past in service to Kafkas literary legacy. This meticulously researched and vividly imagined tale peels back the layers of cultural myth, offering a testament to a different kind of heroism." —Ross Benjamin, translator of The Diaries of Franz Kafka"With Life After Kafka, Magdaléna Platzová has evoked a cosmopolitan storm of post–World War II emotion, an obsessive level of research, and a unique documentary-style attention that adds not only to the mystery of Franz Kafka, but to the scholarship of Kafka as well. This original, sophisticated novel bewitches and inspires." —Joanna Hershon, author of The Outside of August and St. Ivo"Franz Kafka is a universe that resists any attempt at interpretation. Magdaléna Platzovás novel offers a new key to Kafkas world: we look at it through the tender and sorrowful gaze of the people whose fate had been marked by him personally. An utterly touching book!" —Agnieszka Holland, award-winning filmmaker and president of the European Film Academy"Life After Kafka is a thrilling detective story about one of literatures most celebrated names, a haunting family saga about preserving our legacy during the darkest turns of history, and a thought-provoking exploration of the rippling impact of famous artists on the people in their lives. Platzovás masterful merging of fact and fiction, in Alex Zuckers artful and inspired translation, carries us across decades and continents to prove that our connections can be abandoned and yet unbroken, and that even the briefest encounters—in love and in art—can shape us forever." —Jaroslav Kalfa, author of Spaceman of Bohemia and A Brief History of Living Forever"Life After Kafka is not just a fictional quest to find out who Kafkas fiancée, Felice Bauer, was and what kind of life she led after their five-year correspondence ended. In it, life after Kafka is the existential situation into which a community of Prague-based, Jewish intellectuals were thrown . . . capturing the living conditions and possibilities of the refugees after the loss of their homes and relationships, after the shattering of the world whose ruins each of them took with them in a few suitcases." —Magnesia Litera jury citation Promotional Author and translator appearances in Los Angeles, CA; San Diego, CA; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Lincoln, NE; New York, NY [note: author fluent in English]National print, public radio, and online media campaignsSignificant bound galley mailing to media, booksellers, and librarians. Additional digital review copy distribution to media, booksellers, and librarians through EdelweissPublication coincides with the centenary of Franz Kafkas death (June 2024), Women in Translation Month (August 2024), and National Translation Month (September 2024)Author and translator statements available in press materialSimultaneous eBook publication and promotionPostcards availableEarly outreach and giveaways through LibraryThingPromotion through BLPs social media channels and website: Promotion through translators website: Editor: Erika GoldmanCover designer: Kelly WintonMarketing and publicity efforts supported by Molly Mikolowski of A Literary LightCo-op available Details ISBN195427629X Publisher Bellevue Literary Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781954276291 Format Paperback Imprint Bellevue Literary Press Audience General AU Release Date 2024-11-12 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Author Magdalna Platzov Pages 256 Translator Alex Zucker ISBN-10 195427629X UK Release Date 2024-09-19 Publication Date 2024-09-19 US Release Date 2024-09-19 DEWEY 891.8636 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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