Product Description

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Franz Kafka’s imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real.

This edition of his stories includes all his available shorter fiction in a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici in ways that bring out the writer’s extraordinary range and intensity of vision.

Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #170284 in Books
• Published on: 1993-10-26
• Released on: 1993-10-26
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 8.30" h x 1.30" w x 5.33" l, 1.31 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 568 pages

Review
“Because he gives us food we need, Kafka himself will not be forgotten as long as there are books to read and human beings to read them. He lives for us in his fragmentary and living [stories] more than he ever lived for himself in the bosom of his family, the Kafkas, and his city, Prague.” –from the Introduction by Gabriel Josipovici