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Concerns the relationship between the great Danish astronomer and the younger, intellectually superior Johannes Kepler. This book talks of a conflict that becomes an emblem of the struggle between a weakened tradition and a self-conscious modernity. It conveys the intimate, emotional reality of a seventeenth-century political conflict.
Max Brod (1884-1968) was a Czech-born, German-language novelist, and a lifelong friend of Franz Kafka, Peter Fenves is the Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Literature at Northwestern University. Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in what was then Austria-Hungary and before his books were banned by the Nazis his biographies, plays, stories, and his only novel Beware of Pity (Northwestern, 1996), established his reputation as one of the most widely read and translated authors in the world.