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The Complete Short Stories
The Complete Short Stories
paperback
Published:
19 March, 1992
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Description
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.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780749399467 |
| ISBN10 | 0749399465 |
| Number Of Pages | 544 |
| Item Weight | 375 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 34 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
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No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times -- George Steiner
He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him -- Vladimir Nabokov
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Author's Bio
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.