Abandoned Fragments: Unedited Works 1897-1917 - Softcover

Franz Kafka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098388420X ISBN 13: 9780983884200

Publisher: Sun Vision Press, 2012

Synopsis

Collecting all the texts from Franz Kafka's literary remains that originated in the period up until Autumn 1917, plus the material that passed into the published Diaries. These short story drafts, dreams, dialogues and other shards of recorded imagination are published here in strict adherence to Kafka's handwritten drafts, not only in the original form of the text, but also in their raw handwritten arrangements. Each piece is preserved in its original context, including the various different attempts that indicate the way towards a work in progress.

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About the Author:

Franz Kafka was born to Jewish parents in Bohemia in 1883. Kafka s father was a luxury goods retailer who worked long hours and as a result never became close with his son. Kafka s relationship with his father greatly influenced his later writing and directly informed his Brief an den Vater (Letter to His Father). Kafka had a thorough education and was fluent in both German and Czech. As a young man, he was hired to work at an insurance company where he was quickly promoted despite his desire to devote his time to writing rather than insurance. Over the course of his life, Kafka wrote a great number of stories, letters, and essays, but burned the majority of his work before his death and requested that his friend Max Brod burn the rest. Brod, however, did not fulfill this request and published many of the works in the years following Kafka s death of tuberculosis in 1924. Thus, most of Kafka s works were published posthumously, and he did not live to see them recognized as some of the most important examples of literature of the twentieth century. Kafka s works are considered among the most significant pieces of existentialist writing, and he is remembered for his poignant depictions of internal conflicts with alienation and oppression. Some of Kafka s most famous works include The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sun Vision Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 098388420X
• ISBN 13: 9780983884200
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240