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Two young men in flight: Partita and A Winter in Zürau, by Gabriel Josipovici reviewed

Kafka, spitting blood, escapes Prague to join his sister in Bohemia, and a fictional lover flees the wrath of an outraged husband in Josipovici’s delightful two-in-one trick

24 August 2024

9:00 AM

24 August 2024

9:00 AM

Partita and A Winter in Zürau Gabriel Josipovici

Carcanet, pp.288, 14.99

Two books in one: you flip it over, and it becomes the other. A Winter in Zürau is about Franz Kafka’s stay in a small Bohemian village with his sister Ottla after being diagnosed with tuberculosis. Or, as Gabriel Josipovici arrestingly puts it in the preface: ‘One day in the summer of 1917 the writer Franz Kafka woke up to find his mouth full of blood.’

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