I Am a Memory Come Alive Autobiographical Writings

Franz Kafka described himself as "a ghost of a vanished age"; yet he was a visionary of a coming era. This is a documentary autobiography of the writer who, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century novelist, has captured the imagination of the contemporary reader, and whose name has become synonymous with the condition of our time. Out of his life, documented here in his own words, arose his homeless hero living in the terrifying knowledge of his guilt and the author's uncanny view of chaos - indeed, the entire world-view we have come to call Kafkaesque. -- Back cover.