Variations in the Key of K
Published on 11. August 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-9997534-7-7 (ISBN)
Description
A book of provocative ideas, art and artists, this is an artfully constructed collection of stories. Franz Kafka, Pablo Picasso, and William Blake are among the many artists reconceived here. A book of cautionary histories as well as an irreverent celebration of the graces of the creative life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9997534-7-7 (9780999753477)
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Alex Stein was born in Washington State and raised in Canada. He is the co-editor of Short Flights, an anthology of modern aphorisms. He received a doctoral degree in Writing and Literature from the University of Denver. He lives in Boulder, CO where he works as a research librarian at the University of Colorado.
Content
Explanatory Preface in the Form of a Fiction 12
VARIATIONS IN THE KEY OF K
Kafka's Fire 16
The Kafka Sublimation 19
Kafka on the Podium 22
KAFKA'S FATHER
At Home in Prague 28
Provocation and Dislocation 38
Kafka's Literary Estate 41
Kafka on the Stage 46
The Bucket Rider 48
Kafka's Wedding 52
An Alternate History of the Kafka Notebooks 55
Kafka's Transformation 60
Kafka the Athlete 65
DA VINCI'S ENTOURAGE
Devils in the Head of the Poet 76
Artaud in Paris 80
Carrara 84
Blake's Cottage 88
The Paranoia of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 91
Swift's Epitaph 95
Shakespeare's Raven-Haired Lady 99
The Young Man from the Fountain 104
Editor Lange 107
THE PICASSO MUSEUM
In the Picasso Museum 116
Three Paintings 120
Picasso and His Investors 123
The Painter of Fires 128
A Vision of Grace 132
A Brief Biography of Picasso 134
Picasso, Around Midnight 136
Can't Lose for Winning: A Story about Picasso 139
A Bridge that Spans the Seine 142
INSIDE THE WALLED CITY CALLED HISTORY
Illnesses and Recoveries 144
Three Paintings 146
His Spanish Blood 148
A Tiny Bellows 149
Picasso, at 85 151
Breaking with Breton 152
VARIATIONS IN THE KEY OF K
Kafka's Fire 16
The Kafka Sublimation 19
Kafka on the Podium 22
KAFKA'S FATHER
At Home in Prague 28
Provocation and Dislocation 38
Kafka's Literary Estate 41
Kafka on the Stage 46
The Bucket Rider 48
Kafka's Wedding 52
An Alternate History of the Kafka Notebooks 55
Kafka's Transformation 60
Kafka the Athlete 65
DA VINCI'S ENTOURAGE
Devils in the Head of the Poet 76
Artaud in Paris 80
Carrara 84
Blake's Cottage 88
The Paranoia of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 91
Swift's Epitaph 95
Shakespeare's Raven-Haired Lady 99
The Young Man from the Fountain 104
Editor Lange 107
THE PICASSO MUSEUM
In the Picasso Museum 116
Three Paintings 120
Picasso and His Investors 123
The Painter of Fires 128
A Vision of Grace 132
A Brief Biography of Picasso 134
Picasso, Around Midnight 136
Can't Lose for Winning: A Story about Picasso 139
A Bridge that Spans the Seine 142
INSIDE THE WALLED CITY CALLED HISTORY
Illnesses and Recoveries 144
Three Paintings 146
His Spanish Blood 148
A Tiny Bellows 149
Picasso, at 85 151
Breaking with Breton 152