‘Life After Kafka’: Lecture, Reading and Discussion
Luncheon Lecture
12:30 pm –
2:00 pm
Technology Classroom Room: Burnett Hall 301
1220 T St
Lincoln NE 68588
Lincoln NE 68588
Virtual Location:
Zoom
Target Audiences:
Contact:
Hana Waisserova, hwaisserova2@unl.edu
The Czech Studies, German Studies, and Department of Modern Languages and Literatures invites you to:
LUNCHEON LECTURE
with the acclaimed author
Magdaléna PLATZOVÁ
Life After Kafka: lecture, reading, and discussion
FRI OCT 18th@12:30-2pm
BURN 301
Magdaléna Platzová (1972) is an acclaimed author who is touring the US with her brand-new novel Life After Kafka (Bellevue Press, 2024). She grew up in Prague and studied in Washington, D.C., and England. A mother of three children, she lives in Lyon, France. She is the author of award-winning fiction, such as Aaron’s Leap (2014) and The Attempt (2016). Her work has been translated into English, German, Dutch, Croatian, Slovene, Swedish, and French.
LIFE AFTER KAFKA: Franz Kafka scholars know Felice Bauer, his onetime fiancée, through his Letters to Felice, as little more than a woman with a raucous laugh and a taste for bourgeois comforts. Life After Kafka is her story. The novel begins in 1935 as Felice flees with her children from Hitler’s Berlin. Years later, a man claiming to be Kafka’s son approaches Felice’s son in Manhattan, and the drama surrounding Kafka’s letters to Felice begins.
More about the novel and the author at: https://www.blpress.org/books/life-after-kafka/
LUNCHEON LECTURE
with the acclaimed author
Magdaléna PLATZOVÁ
Life After Kafka: lecture, reading, and discussion
FRI OCT 18th@12:30-2pm
BURN 301
Magdaléna Platzová (1972) is an acclaimed author who is touring the US with her brand-new novel Life After Kafka (Bellevue Press, 2024). She grew up in Prague and studied in Washington, D.C., and England. A mother of three children, she lives in Lyon, France. She is the author of award-winning fiction, such as Aaron’s Leap (2014) and The Attempt (2016). Her work has been translated into English, German, Dutch, Croatian, Slovene, Swedish, and French.
LIFE AFTER KAFKA: Franz Kafka scholars know Felice Bauer, his onetime fiancée, through his Letters to Felice, as little more than a woman with a raucous laugh and a taste for bourgeois comforts. Life After Kafka is her story. The novel begins in 1935 as Felice flees with her children from Hitler’s Berlin. Years later, a man claiming to be Kafka’s son approaches Felice’s son in Manhattan, and the drama surrounding Kafka’s letters to Felice begins.
More about the novel and the author at: https://www.blpress.org/books/life-after-kafka/
https://www.blpress.org/books/life-after-kafka/
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