{"product_id":"all-of-us-can-fly-polytekton-9781941892367","title":"All of Us Can Fly: After Motifs of Franz Kafka as Recounted by","description":"A book of poetry, after motifs by Franz Kafka as recounted by the author. About the Book In the summer of 2016 I received a scholarship by the \u003ci\u003eFranz-Edelmaier-Residenz für Literatur und Menschenrechte\u003c\/i\u003e in Merano, a health resort in northern Italy. My intention was to complete a recent translation. Although I knew that Franz Kafka had been living in Merano for some months during the spring of 1920, I had not been aware that we could have been actual neighbors - since my apartment was only a few minutes away from the wonderful old villa where Kafka had tried in vain to cure himself of tuberculosis. After a while I forgot about my translation and started to work on Kafka's parables, recounting them, as I thought then, for children and, as I think now, for all readers who might prefer to get in touch with his work in a rather playful way. As a matter of fact, in contrast to the idea of Kafka as a nearly inaccessible author, with this book I want to point out the universalism of his work and his thinking, with all of its deep and dark humanity. Like every great artist, Kafka does not speak exclusively to a cultural elite, but, on the contrary, to each reader at his or her own level of life-experience. There is never the one-and-only interpretation, but always a fascinating multitude of numerous approaches to the vividness heard in more than one truth. Unfortunately, I can not ask Kafka for permission to play with his parables, but I like to think that he - secure in the integrity of his messages - would have said, \u003ci\u003eof course, try...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Polytekton,Stefanie Golisch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1941892361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781941892367\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Musca Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.12d","brand":"Polytekton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48442693681407,"sku":"9781941892367","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b3a30efb-1d90-4208-93f8-f3c8045669fc.jpg?v=1777199126","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/all-of-us-can-fly-polytekton-9781941892367","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}