The Complete Short Stories by Franz Kafka

The Complete Short Stories by Franz Kafka

The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary 'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. Auden This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought. Some are well known, others are mere jottings, observations of daily life, given artistic form through Kafka's unique perception of the world.

No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times -- George Steiner
He is the greatest German writer of our timeSuch poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him -- Vladimir Nabokov

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the state Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial and The Castle.

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ISBN 13	9780749399467
ISBN 10	0749399465
Title	The Complete Short Stories
Author	Franz Kafka
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Binding type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	1992-03-19
Number of pages	544
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