The Complete Stories (Schocken classics) - Softcover

Kafka, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805208739 ISBN 13: 9780805208733

Publisher: Schocken Books, 1988

Synopsis

The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” and “A Hunger Artist” to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, released after Kafka’s death. With the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka’s narrative work is included in this volume. 

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[Kafka] spoke for millions in their new unease; a century after his birth, he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern man s cosmic predicament.
from the Foreword by John Updike
The distinction Kafka, or his heroes, draw between "this "world and "the "world does not imply that there are two different worlds, only that our habitual conceptions of reality are not the true conception.
W. H. Auden
An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic.
" The New York Times ""

"[Kafka] spoke for millions in their new unease; a century after his birth, he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern man's cosmic predicament."
--from the Foreword by John Updike

"The distinction Kafka, or his heroes, draw between this world and the world does not imply that there are two different worlds, only that our habitual conceptions of reality are not the true conception."
--W. H. Auden

"An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic."
--The New York Times

Synopsis

In his lifetime, Kafka refused to publish more than a fraction of his work. This volume brings together all of his stories, from the better known, such as "The Metamorphosis", to the lesser-known pieces. Shortly before his death at the age of 40, he instructed his friend and literary executor, Max Brod to burn all his remaining works of fiction. He disobeyed and fragments released after his death are included in this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Schocken Books
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805208739
• ISBN 13: 9780805208733
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512