Complete Stories - Hardcover

Kafka, Franz; Glatzer, Nahum N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805238638 ISBN 13: 9780805238631

Publisher: Schocken Books, 1987

Synopsis

Collects the entire body of Kafka's short stories and parables, reflecting his concern for modern man's search for identity, place, and purpose

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Review

[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

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 At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work.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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Schocken Books
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805238638
• ISBN 13: 9780805238631
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 486