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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group The Limited
ISBN-100349106592
ISBN-139780349106595
eBay Product ID (ePID)2007446
Product Key Features
Book TitleFranz Kafka Stories 1904-1924
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicShort Stories (Single Author)
GenreFiction
AuthorFranz Kafka
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight7.8 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsUnderwood has revitalised that world of painful pedantry and comic obsession... He writes with rhythm, confidence and flair... A typically brief and brilliant foreword by Jorge Luis Borges... Acquire this necessary book., A careful and sensitive English rendering of all the stories published in book form during Kafka's lifetime.
SynopsisFrom the expressionism of his early prose pieces to his very last work, JOSEPHINE, these stories cover the full range of Kafka's writing career, culminating in THE METAMORPHOSIS, which Elias Canetti described as "one of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century."Kafka's stories, argues Borges in his foreword, are superior even to his novels, which is why this collection "gives us the full dimesion of this unique writer.' J.A Underwood's acclaimed translation gives the reader all the chilling atmosphere of Kafka's darkly comic universe, as reflected in the commanding precision of his language., From the expressionism of his early prose pieces to his very last work, JOSEPHINE, these stories cover the full range of Kafka's writing career, culminating in THE METAMORPHOSIS, which Elias Canetti described as "one of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century." Kafka's stories, argues Borges in his foreword, are superior even to his novels, which is why this collection "gives us the full dimesion of this unique writer.' J.A Underwood's acclaimed translation gives the reader all the chilling atmosphere of Kafka's darkly comic universe, as reflected in the commanding precision of his language., From the expressionism of his early prose pieces to his very last work, 'Josephine', these stories cover the full range of Kafka's writing career, culminating in 'The Metamorphosis', which Elias Canetti described as one of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century.