{"product_id":"k-9781400076123","title":"K.","description":"From the internationally acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony \u003c\/i\u003ecomes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interest-a virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat are Kafka's fictions about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Countless answers have been offered, but the essential mystery remains intact. Setting out on his own exploration, Roberto Calasso enters the flow, the tortuous movement, the physiology of Kafka's work to discover why K. and Josef K.-the protagonists of \u003ci\u003eThe Castle \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Trial\u003c\/i\u003e-are so radically different from any other character in the history of the novel, and to determine who, in the end, is K. The culmination of Calasso's lifelong fascination with Kafka's work, \u003ci\u003eK. \u003c\/i\u003eis also an unprecedented consideration of the mystery of Kafka himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Florence, Roberto Calasso lives in Milan, where he is publisher of Adelphi. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ruin of Kasch\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony\u003c\/i\u003e, which was the winner of France's Prix Veillon and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger; \u003ci\u003eKa\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLiterature and the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Forty-Nine Steps\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50414970405138,"sku":"9781400076123","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b4eea985-149a-47a8-8476-15bc53af7b92.jpg?v=1729392000","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/k-9781400076123","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}