Description
One hundred years after his death, Franz Kafka remains an author in transformation and one of the most enigmatic classics of modernity. Despite the grounding of his work in everyday life and his remarkably clear, unadorned language, his writing —as is often said— ultimately resists full understanding. The essays gathered in this commemorative volume take this inaccessibility of Kafka’s work as their point of departure and embrace it as an invitation to shed new light, where possible, on specific aspects of the Prague author’s oeuvre: by testing new poetological approaches, rereading classic critical essays, reflecting on the (im)possibility of translating him, assessing existing translations (into Spanish and Catalan), or exploring models of creative reception. The volume addresses both specialist and academic audiences and general readers, those approaching Kafka’s work for the first time —or the second— as well as all those who continue, and will continue, to ask themselves the question that, according to the writer César Aira, hovers over Kafka’s entire body of work: what is he talking about?
