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In 1947, Macmillan Canada introduced a "shining new talent to the world of letters" with the publication of Who Has Seen the Wind. With his unique blend of poetry and humour, Mitchell created an unforgettable account of a young boy growing up on the Saskatchewan prairie. But it is more than this: it is the ageless story of childhood told with tenderness and humour and without sentimentality; it is the picture of a small town anywhere, drawn with realism and understanding and without malice. Canadian and American reviewers gave high praise to Mitchell's first novel. Robertson Davies described it as "the best novel about life in Canada that has come my way in a long time." Other reviewers enthused, "nothing like this book...has ever before come from a Canadian pen," it contains "some of the most exquisite descriptive writing" yet seen, and "Brian O'Connal is destined to join the boy immortals of American literature." This 1997 edition commemorates the novel and its author. It also includes, in an appended essay, the intriguing story of Mitchell's struggle with his American editors to retain many key elements of his book. W.O. Mitchell's daughte
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Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer (1883–1924)
"Kafka" redirects here. For other uses, see Kafka (disambiguation).
Franz Kafka[b] (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a Jewish Austrian-Czech[4] novelist and writer from Prague who wrote in German. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic,[5] and typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity.[6] His best known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926). The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe absurd situations like those depicted in his writing.
Kafka was born into a middle-class German- and Yiddish-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which belonged to the Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today the capital of the Czech Republic, also known as Czechia).[8][9] He trained as a lawyer, and after completing his legal education was employed full-time in various legal and insur