This book presents the conversations and recollections of Gustav Janouch with one of the greatest writers of 20th-century European literature—Franz Kafka. Gustav Janouch (1903–1968), known in his native Czechoslovakia as a musicologist, gained exceptional literary recognition with the publication of this memoir about Kafka (1951, 1968).Gustav Janouch's conversations and recollections with one of the greatest writers of 20th-century European literature:
Withstanding the test of time, this work is now regarded as one of the finest books about Kafka’s life and literary legacy.
Translated from German and annotated by Ara Arakelyan
