Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories - Softcover

Franz Kafka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805210555 ISBN 13: 9780805210552

Publisher: Schocken, 1995

Synopsis

The 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

About this title

About the Author

Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker.” 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 At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.

From the Back Cover

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Schocken
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805210555
• ISBN 13: 9780805210552
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 488
• Editor: Nahum N. Glatzer