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Seller: Coffee Cat Books, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.Coffee Cat Books
AbeBooks seller since September 15, 2021
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 14.78
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Pocket Books, 1979 (6th print). Very Good MMP. Bookseller's stamp to First end page, otherwise clean, no markings. Bright & clean cover, rubbing creasing to spine, some corner and edge wear. Binding Solid & Square. Kafka anthology featuring stories, diaries & letters in vintage MMP. Modernist & existential fiction with surreal themes, defining Kafka's role in 20th century European literature. Ships from USA, quickly & with care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: The Basic Kafka by Franz Kafka Originally compiled in 1979, this anthology of short fiction, parables, and essays consists of approximately 336 pages. The volume is designed as an introductory resource, providing a comprehensive structural and thematic overview of the author's contribution to 20th-century modernist literature. The collection gathers several of his most significant works, representing the iconic 'Kafkaesque' themes of bureaucratic absurdity, alienation, and metaphysical guilt. The anthology features his premier novella, 'The Metamorphosis,' alongside classic short stories such as 'In the Penal Colony,' 'A Hunger Artist,' 'The Great Wall of China,' and 'A Country Doctor.' Also included are several short parables and selections from Kafka's personal diaries and letters. The work is structurally organized to demonstrate the development of Kafka's unique prose style, which combines clinical, objective realism with surreal, nightmarish narratives to analyze the anxiety of the modern individual.…
Seller Inventory # C0VG-hm091725P10
- Title
- The Basic Kafka
- Author
- Kafka, Franz
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- VERY GOOD
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 067153145X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671531454
- Printing
- 5th or later printin
- Item weight
- 29 ounces
- Dimensions
- 4x6
- Seller catalogs
- Literature, Short Stories, Vintage Paperbacks
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Coffee Cat Books
Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since September 15, 2021
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