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Complete Stories by Franz Kafka (1995, Trade Paperback)
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Title: The Complete Stories. Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100805210555
ISBN-139780805210552
eBay Product ID (ePID)661517
Product Key Features
Book TitleComplete Stories
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year1995
GenreFiction
AuthorFranz Kafka
Book SeriesThe Schocken Kafka Library
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight14.6 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN88-018418
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"[Kafka] spoke for millions in their new unease; a century after his birth, he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern man's cosmic predicament." -from the Foreword by John Updike "The distinction Kafka, or his heroes, draw between this world and the world does not imply that there are two different worlds, only that our habitual conceptions of reality are not the true conception." -W. H. Auden "An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic." -The New York Times, "[Kafka] spoke for millions in their new unease; a century after his birth, he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern man's cosmic predicament." -from the Foreword by John Updike "The distinction Kafka, or his heroes, draw between this world and the world does not imply that there are two different worlds, only that our habitual conceptions of reality are not the true conception." -W. H. Auden "An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic." -The New York Times
Dewey Decimal833.912
Table Of ContentFOREWORD BY JOHN UPDIKE TWO INTRODUCTORY PARABLES Before the Law* An Imperial Message* THE LONGER STORIES Description of a Struggle Wedding Preparations in the Country The Judgment* The Metamorphosis* In the Penal Colony * The Village Schoolmaster [The Giant Mole ] Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor The Warden of the Tomb A Country Doctor* The Hunter Gracchus The Hunter Gracchus: A Fragment The Great Wall of China The News of the Building of the Wall: A Fragment A Report to an Academy * A Report to an Academy: Two Fragments The Refusal A Hunger Artist* Investigations of a Dog A Little Woman* The Burrow 325 Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk* 360 THE SHORTER STORIES Children on a Country Road* The Trees* Clothes* Excursion into the Mountains* Rejection* The Street Window* The Tradesman* Absent-minded Window-gazing* The Way Home* Passers-by* On the Tram* Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys* The Wish to Be a Red Indian* Unhappiness* Bachelor's Ill Luck* Unmasking a Confidence Trickster* The Sudden Walk* Resolutions* Dream* Up in the Gallery * A Fratricide* The Next Village* A Visit to a Mine* Jackals and Arabs* The Bridge The Bucket Rider The New Advocate* An Old Manuscript* The Knock at the Manor Gate Eleven Sons* My Neighbor A Crossbreed [A Sport] The Cares of a Family Man* A Common Confusion The Truth about Sancho Panza The Silence of the Sirens Prometheus The City Coat of Arms Poseidon Fellowship At Night The Problem of Our Laws The Conscription of Troops The Test The Vulture The Helmsman The Top A Little Fable Home-Coming First Sorrow* The Departure Advocates The Married Couple Give it Up! On Parables * Published during Kafka's lifetime. POSTSCRIPT BIBLIOGRAPHY EDITORS AND TRANSLATORS ON THE MATERIAL INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME CHRONOLOGY SELECTED WRITINGS ON KAFKA
SynopsisThe complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. "An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic." -- The New York Times The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the classic tales such as "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony," and "A Hunger Artist" to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, released after Kafka's death. With the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka's narrative work is included in this volume. "[Kafka] spoke for millions in their new unease; a century after his birth, he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern man's cosmic predicament." --from the Foreword by John Updike, The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the classic tales such as "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony," and "A Hunger Artist" to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, released after Kafka's death. With the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka's narrative work is included in this volume.
LC Classification NumberPT2621.A26A2 1988
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- 21 May, 2020
All The Good Stuff In One Volume!
Kafka's short fiction ranges from a couple of pages to novella-length works. After reading a couple of his stories elsewhere I just had to buy this complete collection. It's worth it!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 12 Oct, 2024
All the master’s short fiction!
What could be better—all of Kafka’s work, both the stories published I. His lifetime and all the other (sometimes quite short) short fiction!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 10 Jul, 2023
good
it's Kafka..What's to be rated about it. The most important short stories in world's literature...Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 17 Aug, 2016
The book speaks to me on a personal level.
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 18 Jun, 2022
Kafka!!!
Great short stories!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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