{"product_id":"kafkaesque-by-maia-hruska","title":"Kafkaesque by Maïa Hruska","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"hc-product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happens to a writer's work when it's translated – specifically, what happens if his name is Franz Kafka?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter Kafka died young and unknown, a German-speaking Jew in Prague, ten writers rescued him from oblivion. For years, long before he became a much misused adjective, Kafka existed mostly through their wildly different readings of his words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany of his first translators would later be counted among the greatest thinkers and writers of the twentieth century – and they all found in Kafka’s writing a guiding light through the dark of their own tumultuous lives. Primo Levi translated Kafka into Italian from the German he had learned in Auschwitz; Milena Jesenská lovingly into Czech before she too was deported to the camps; Bruno Schulz into Polish before being shot by an SS officer; and Jorge Luis Borges into Spanish as he slowly went blind. Vladimir Nabokov annotated\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein exile, having undergone his own transformation from native to foreigner, while Kafka’s translators back in Russia were condemned to perpetual anonymity by the Soviet censor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith inventiveness, spirit and wit, Maïa Hruska has written a celebration of the impossible art of translation, and a portrait of the tragic, absurd twentieth century that Kafka so presciently described.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Sam Taylor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52155067695417,"sku":"11854880","price":99.95,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0822\/6871\/7369\/files\/11854880_abd7fccb-2394-4097-9637-3212d5b2cdd5.jpg?v=1776246655","url":"https:\/\/shop.cziplee.com\/products\/kafkaesque-by-maia-hruska","provider":"CzipLee Retail","version":"1.0","type":"link"}