Franz Kafka The Complete Stories - Softcover

Franz Kafka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805208739 ISBN 13: 9780805208733

Publisher: Schocken Books, 1988

Synopsis

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. 

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Review:

How many writers get their own adjective? The work of this terminally alienated master narrator of the subconscious demanded a new descriptor; I guess they gave up and just settled on "Kafkaesque." But if you ever wonder what the original Kafkaesque work was, take a look here. The book contains all of Kafka's short and longer stories -- everything but his three novels. Most of these stories weren't even published during the author's lifetime. The widely-anthologized The Metamorphosis is here, wherein Gregor Samsa awakes from uneasy dreams to find himself insectoidally transformed, as are equally lovely pieces like A Hunger Artist, A Country Doctor and A Little Woman.

From the Inside Flap:

ilable collection that brings together all of Kafka's stories--those published during his lifetime and those released after his death.

About this edition

• Publisher: Schocken Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0805208739
• ISBN 13: 9780805208733
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 488
• Editor: Nahum N. Glatzer