Best Short Stories / Die schönsten Erzählungen - Softcover

Kafka, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486295613 ISBN 13: 9780486295619

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2008

Synopsis

Students of German language and literature will welcome this collection of 5 stories by one of the greatest modern writers. Included are "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." Original German texts accompanied by new, literal English translations on facing pages.

About this title

About the Author

Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker.” He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.

From the Back Cover

Students of German language and literature will welcome this dual-language edition of five stories by Franz Kafka (1883-1924). Considered one of the greatest modern writers, Kafka's work brilliantly explores the anxiety, futility and complexity of modern life. Along with original German texts, Stanley Appelbaum has provided accurate English translations on facing pages, affording students and ideal opportunity to read some of Kafka's finest in the original, to discover the passion and profundity of this extremely important figure in modern European literature, and to upgrade their German language skill at the same time.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486295613
• ISBN 13: 9780486295619
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208