Kafka, Franz Penal Colony, the - Softcover

Kafka, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805204180 ISBN 13: 9780805204186

Publisher: Schocken Books, 1974

Synopsis

This collection brings together all the stories Kafka allowed to be published during his lifetime. Those titles include ""Meditation"", ""The Metamorphosis"", ""The Country Doctor"" and ""In the Penal Colony"".

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Review:

"Had one to name the artist who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age that Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka is the first one would think of. . . . Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

--W. H. Auden

"I cannot say what I admire more, the naturalistic presentation of an imaginary world, rendered believable through a minute precision of the images, or the daring turn to the mysterious."

--Andre Gide

"Had one to name the artist who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age that Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka is the first one would think of. . . . Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

--W. H. Auden

"I cannot say what I admire more, the naturalistic presentation of an imaginary world, rendered believable through a minute precision of the images, or the daring turn to the mysterious."

--Andre Gide

-Had one to name the artist who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age that Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka is the first one would think of. . . . Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.-

--W. H. Auden

-I cannot say what I admire more, the naturalistic presentation of an imaginary world, rendered believable through a minute precision of the images, or the daring turn to the mysterious.-

--Andre Gide

About the Author:

Franz Kafka was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. A middle-class Jew based in Prague, his unique body of writing — many incomplete and most published posthumously — has become amongst the most influential in Western literature. Kafka's works – including the stories Das Urteil (1913, "The Judgement"), In der Strafkolonie (1920, "In the Penal Colony"); the novella Die Verwandlung ("The Metamorphosis"); and unfinished novels Der Prozess ("The Trial") and Das Schloß ("The Castle") – have come to embody the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective "kafkaesque".

About this edition

• Publisher: Schocken Books
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0805204180
• ISBN 13: 9780805204186
• Binding: Paperback