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Partita and A Winter in Zuerau

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This is Gabriel Josipovici's most melodramatic and enigmatic fiction to date, as though one of Magritte's paintings had come to life to the rhythms of a Bach partita.
Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine parents. He lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, when he came to Britain. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and he taught at the University of Sussex from 1963 to 1998. He is the author of 19 novels, 3 volumes of short stories, 8 critical works, a Covid diary and numerous stage and radio plays, and is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. His plays have been performed throughout Britain and on radio in Britain, France and Germany, and his work has been translated into the major European languages and Arabic.
In this hybrid work by the celebrated novelist, short story writer, critic and playwright, two strands of his work combine in a daring and intriguing juxtaposition of fiction and fact • Partita is a melodramatic and enigmatic fiction: Michael Penderecki is in flight. Someone has threatened to kill him. He falls in love, follows its chimera - and who is the woman in the bathtub? Is she dead? • A Winter in Zürau is a biographical and critical exploration of eight crucial months of anguish and reflection in Franz Kafka’s life that resulted in the famous Aphorisms • The two works are curiously complementary. Both figures, in searching for an escape, undertake journeys of self-discovery • Josipovici has been dubbed ‘one of the best writers now at work in the English language’ by The Guardian
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