The metamorphosis, In the penal colony, and other stories : with two new stories

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Title:

The metamorphosis, In the penal colony, and other stories : with two new stories

Author:

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

ISBN:

9780684800707

Personal Author:

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

Uniform Title:

Erzählungen und kleine Prosa. English

Edition:

1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2000.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 316 p. ; 21 cm.

Contents:

Conversation with the worshiper -- Conversation with the drunk -- Great noise -- Children on the highway -- Exposing a city slicker -- The sudden stroll -- Decisions -- The outing in the mountains -- The bachelor's unhappiness -- The businessman -- Absently gazing out -- The way home -- The people running by -- The passenger -- Frocks -- The rejection -- Reflections for amateur jockeys -- The window facing the street -- The wish to be an Indian -- The trees -- Unhappiness -- The judgment -- The stoker -- The metamorphosis -- In the Penal Colony --The new lawyer -- A country doctor -- Up in the gallery -- An ancient manuscript -- Before the law -- Jackals and Arabs-- A visit to the mine -- The next village -- An imperial message -- The anxiety of the head of family -- Eleven sons -- A fratricide -- A dream -- A report for an academy -- First sorrow -- The hunger artist.

Abstract:

Collects fourty-four stories by Franz Kafka including "The Stoker," "The Judgement," "First Sorrow," and "The Hunger Artist."

Personal Subject:

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924-Translations into English.

Added Author:

Neugroschel, Joachim.

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Summary

"In Neugroschel's version we see more of Kafka's meaning, his unexpected comedy ...we have for the first time the sense of understanding Kafka's complexity and where it might lead us." -- Chicago Tribune

A classic translation of Kafka's best-known, and most obscure, short fiction--with a new foreword from celebrated writer Ling Ma.

Widely recognized as one of the preeminent English-language anthologies of Kafka's stories, this critically acclaimed collection assembles the great short works of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers. With masterful attentiveness to the intricacies of Kafka's dialect of Prague German, this is an essential selection of forty-four stories, including such timeless works of fiction as "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony," and "The Judgment." Brought into the present by a foreword from Ling Ma, Kafka's work has never been more relevant to contemporary literature--nor has Kafka himself ever been a keener observer of the human condition, with his singular apprehension of power, the absurd, and the enigma and alienation at the center of modern living.