Kafka's Selected Stories

Norton Critical Edition

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By: Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (Editor)

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This Norton Critical Edition is based on new translations by leading Kafka scholar and translator Stanley Corngold. Thirty stories are included, accompanied by detailed annotations."Backgrounds and Contexts" offers a glimpse of Kafka's creative process through extracts from his letters, diaries, and conversations. "Criticism" collects ten essays on the major stories by Stanley Corngold, Danielle Allen, Walter Hinderer, Walter Sokel, Nicola Gess, Vivian Liska, Benno Wagner, John A. Hargraves, and Gerhard Kurz. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Preface	p. vii
The Texts of Kafka's Selected Stories	p. 1
The Judgment
A Story	p. 3
The Stoker
A Fragment	p. 12
In the Penal Colony	p. 35
A Country Doctor
Little Stories	p. 59
The New Lawyer	p. 59
A Country Doctor	p. 60
Up in the Gallery	p. 65
A Page from an Old Document	p. 66
Before the Law	p. 68
Jackals and Arabs	p. 69
The Worry of the Father of the Family	p. 72
A Fratricide	p. 73
A Dream	p. 75
A Report to an Academy	p. 76
A Starvation Artist
Four Stories	p. 84
First Distress	p. 84
A Starvation Artist	p. 86
Josefine, the Singer or The Mouse People	p. 94
Posthumously Published Stories	p. 108
The Bridge	p. 108
The Hunter Gracchus
Two Fragments	p. 109
Building the Great Wall of China	p. 113
The Knock at the Courtyard Gate	p. 124
A Crossbreed	p. 125
An Everyday Event	p. 127
The Silence of the Sirens	p. 127
Prometheus	p. 129
On the Question of the Laws	p. 129
Poseidon	p. 131
Researches of a Dog	p. 132
A Comment	p. 161
On Parables	p. 161
The Burrow	p. 162
Backgrounds and Contexts: [Letters, Diaries, and Conversations]	p. 193
Criticism
Preface to an Understanding of Kafka	p. 217
In the Circle of "The Judgment"	p. 221
Sounding Silence	p. 235
An Anecdote by Kafka: "A Fratricide"	p. 246
Identity and the Individual, or Past and Present	p. 252
The Politics of Listening: The Power of Song in Kafka's "Josefine, the Singer"	p. 275
Positions: On Franz Kafka's "Poseidon"	p. 288
"No one indicates the direction": The Question of Leadership in Kafka's Later Stories	p. 302
Kafka and Silence: An Alternate View of Music	p. 321
The Rustling of Stillness: Approaches to Kafka's The Burrow	p. 333
Franz Kafka: A Chronology	p. 357
Selected Bibliography	p. 361
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ISBN: 9780393924794
ISBN-10: 0393924793
Series: Norton Critical Editions
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 374
Published: 15th August 2006
Dimensions (cm): 20.8 x 13.2 x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.361