{"title":"Literary Collections--European--General","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"letters-to-a-young-poet-1","title":"Letters to a Young Poet","description":"\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of 1943 Edition. Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, ten in all, remain a fresh source of inspiration and insight to the poetic sensibility to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1946963135\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781946963130\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Rilke, Rainer Maria, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Albatross Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Albatross Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Mar 2018)","offer_id":45659997077701,"sku":"9781946963130","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781946963130.jpg?v=1768916594"},{"product_id":"kafkaesque-from-jorge-luis-borges-to-primo-levi-ten-writers-who-translated-kafka-and-transformed-twentieth-century-literature","title":"Kafkaesque: From Jorge Luis Borges to Primo Levi, Ten Writers Who Translated Kafka and Transformed Twentieth-Century Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lively inquiry into a literary genius, the translators who immortalized him, and what it means to cultivate a rich inner life in turbulent times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"What happens to a writer's work when it is translated-specifically, what happens if his name is Franz Kafka?\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Kafkaesque\u003c\/i\u003e, Maïa Hruska traces the strange, shape-shifting legacy of one of literature's most elusive figures--not through traditional biography but through the lives of his earliest and most influential translators. With rigor and élan, she shows us how our understanding of Kafka is inevitably filtered through these voices, many of whom were, or would become, major writers and thinkers in their own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJorge Luis Borges rendered Kafka into Spanish, recognizing in him a fellow architect of the infinite. Primo Levi used the German he acquired in a concentration camp to bring \u003ci\u003eThe Trial \u003c\/i\u003einto Italian despite the \"psychoanalytic repulsion\" he felt toward Kafka. Bruno Schulz published his Polish edition of the same novel before being shot by a Nazi officer. Vladimir Nabokov annotated \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e in exile, having undergone his own transformation-from native to foreigner. Milena Jesenská, Kafka's great love, translated him into Czech, a language he was both surrounded by and estranged from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges across these essays isn't just a portrait of a legendary writer and his translators but also a portrait of the twentieth century itself--its fractures and displacements, its aesthetic revolutions, its ethical crises. Part cultural history, part group biography, \u003ci\u003eKafkaesque\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling meditation on language, identity, and the irreducible strangeness of reading and being read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0063486245\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780063486249\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Hruska, Maïa, Taylor, Sam\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (May 2026)","offer_id":46291789578437,"sku":"9780063486249","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780063486249.jpg?v=1780113087"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/collections\/literary-collections-european-general.oembed","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}