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Diaries - Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka (translated by Ross Benjamin)
Category: Biography
An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers Dating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka's Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including accounts of daily events, assor ...Show more
Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
Category: Biography | Series: Schocken classics
These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka's death at the age of forty. They provide a penetrating look into life in Prague and into Kafka's accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he worshipped and the woman he could not bring himself to marry, his sense of guilt, and ...Show more
Essential Kafka by FRANZ KAFKA
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a ...Show more
Franz Kafka - The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Schocken Kafka Library
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, th ...Show more
He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka (riverrun Editions) by Franz Kafka; Joshua Cohen (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
'Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who's standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.' Joshua Cohen, from his preface to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, t ...Show more
In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
Category: Classic
'The condemned man looked so doggishly submissive, it really seemed as if one might allow him to roam the slopes freely, and only needed to whistle when it was time for the execution, and he would come.' Kafka transformed the possibilities of the short story, his unique imagination giving his dark tales ...Show more
Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.
Investigations of a Dog : And Other Creatures by Franz Kafka , Transl: Michael Hofmann
Category: Fiction
Description: Animals, strange beasts, bureaucrats, businessmen, and nightmares populate this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. These matchless short works, all unpublished during Kafka's lifetime, range from the gleeful dialogue between a cat and a mouse in "Little Fable" to the absurd humor of "Inv ...Show more
Kafkaesque - Fourteen Short Stories by Peter Kuper; Franz Kafka
Category: Graphic Novels
Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illustrating his stories in 1988. Initially drawn to the master's dark humor, Kuper adapted the stories over the years to plumb their deeper truths. Kuper's style deliberately evokes Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel, contemporaries of Kafka who ...Show more
Konundrum by Franz Kafka
Category: Fiction
In this new selection and translation, Peter Wortsman mines Franz Kafka's entire opus of short prose - including works published in the author's brief lifetime, posthumously published stories, journals and letters. The result is a thorough plumbing of the imaginative depths of the great German-Jewish sc ...Show more
Letter to His Father / Brief an den Vater by Franz Kafka
Category: Biography | Series: The\Schocken Kafka Library
One of the most astonishing and revelatory pieces of writing ever produced by this twentieth-century literary icon, presented in both the original German and the English translation. Kafka s letter to his father is at once an exploration of his relationship to his father, his need to write, and the sour ...Show more