THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA: Stories and Reflections

Kafka, Franz

ISBN 10: 0805204199 / ISBN 13: 9780805204193

Published by Schocken Books, 1970

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA: Stories and Reflections
• Publisher: Schocken Books
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805204199
• ISBN 13: 9780805204193
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

El presente volumen reúne un heterogéneo conjunto de cuentos, relatos y apuntes que cubre prácticamente toda la vida de escritor de Franz Kafka (1883-1924), desde Descripción de una lucha (que data probablemente de 1902 o 1903) hasta La construcción (escrita en 1923-1924) e Investigaciones de un perro (seguramente su último relato). La muralla china recoge, en efecto, y salvo el conjunto de los Cuadernos en octavo y la prosa, más fragmentaria, incluida en el volumen Carta al padre y otros escritos , la práctica totalidad de la narrativa breve que el autor checo, por una u otra razón, no llegó a publicar en vida.

About the Author

Franz Kafka was born to Jewish parents in Bohemia in 1883. Kafka s father was a luxury goods retailer who worked long hours and as a result never became close with his son. Kafka s relationship with his father greatly influenced his later writing and directly informed his Brief an den Vater (Letter to His Father). Kafka had a thorough education and was fluent in both German and Czech. As a young man, he was hired to work at an insurance company where he was quickly promoted despite his desire to devote his time to writing rather than insurance. Over the course of his life, Kafka wrote a great number of stories, letters, and essays, but burned the majority of his work before his death and requested that his friend Max Brod burn the rest. Brod, however, did not fulfill this request and published many of the works in the years following Kafka s death of tuberculosis in 1924. Thus, most of Kafka s works were published posthumously, and he did not live to see them recognized as some of the most important examples of literature of the twentieth century. Kafka s works are considered among the most significant pieces of existentialist writing, and he is remembered for his poignant depictions of internal conflicts with alienation and oppression. Some of Kafka s most famous works include The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle.