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Kafka's Selected Stories

A Norton Critical Edition
By Franz Kafka
Series: Norton Critical Editions
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Kafka's Selected Stories offers a fascinating glimpse into Kafka's eerie, surreal world, featuring themes of alienation, existential dread, and the absurdity of human experience. Through a collection of short tales, Kafka crafts dark and complex narratives often marked by enigmatic and dreamlike occurrences. Readers are drawn into Kafka's vivid imagination, where the lines between reality and distortion blur, creating compelling social and philosophical reflections.
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You might enjoy this collection if you're intrigued by surreal narratives that explore themes of existential anxiety and the absurdity of human existence. Kafka's uniquely haunting and thought-provoking tales often delve into the complexities of identity, alienation, and the surreal aspects of everyday life. If these themes resonate with you, this book is likely to captivate your imagination.

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Kafka's Selected Stories

In 1945, W. H. Auden remarked that Kafka stands in the same relation to his century as Shakespeare does to his—Kafka is the representative of the twentieth century, the poet who gives it its voice.

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Kafka's Selected Stories is presented in this Norton Critical Edition with new translations by leading Kafka scholar and translator Stanley Corngold. The edition comprises thirty stories, each accompanied by detailed annotations for enhanced understanding.

"Backgrounds and Contexts" offers readers a glimpse into Kafka's creative process through extracts from his letters, diaries, and conversations, providing invaluable insight into his mind and methods.

"Criticism" brings together ten essays on the major stories, featuring contributions from Stanley Corngold, Danielle Allen, Walter Hinderer, Walter Sokel, Nicola Gess, Vivian Liska, Benno Wagner, John A. Hargraves, and Gerhard Kurz, each offering a unique perspective on Kafka's work.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included to help further situate Kafka's oeuvre within literary history.

Series: Norton Critical Editions

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393924794

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 September 2006

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Edition: Critical edition

Contributors:

  • Edited by Stanley Corngold

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 318g

Pages: 376

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Fiction Franz Kafka General Fiction Literary Fiction Series: Norton Critical Editions

About the Author

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod. Stanley Corngold is a professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at Princeton University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His highly acclaimed translations include Kafka's Selected Stories. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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