The Complete Short Stories
The Complete Short Stories
$25.18
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
6 December 2018
Summary
‘Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man’ W. H. Auden
The complete short stories of the 20th century’s greatest visionary.
This volume contains all of Kafka’s shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth of Kafka’s literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought. Some are well known, others are mere jottings, observations of daily life, given artistic fo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780749399467 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0749399465 |
| Author: | Franz Kafka |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 6 December 2018 |
| Weight: | 375g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Vintage classics |
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Critics Review
No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times
No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times – George Steiner
He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him – Vladimir Nabokov
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906, he received a doctorate in jurisprudence. For many years, he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer, investigating claims at the state Worker’s Accident Insurance Institute. He never married and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime: Meditation (a collection of sketches) in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels—America, The Trial, and The Castle—were not published until after his death from tuberculosis.
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