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This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.
aI think of a Kafka story as a perfect work of literary art, as approachable as it is strange, and as strange as it is approachable.a
aMichael Hofmann
| Contemplation (1913) | p. 1 |
| Children on the road | p. 3 |
| Unmasking a confidence trickster | p. 7 |
| The sudden walk | p. 10 |
| Resolutions | p. 12 |
| The excursion into the mountains | p. 13 |
| The plight of the bachelor | p. 14 |
| The businessman | p. 15 |
| Looking out distractedly | p. 18 |
| The way home | p. 19 |
| The men running past | p. 20 |
| The passenger | p. 21 |
| Dresses | p. 23 |
| The rejection | p. 24 |
| For the consideration of amateur jockeys | p. 25 |
| The window on to the street | p. 27 |
| Desire to be a red Indian | p. 28 |
| The trees | p. 29 |
| Being unhappy | p. 30 |
| The judgement : a story for F. (1913) | p. 35 |
| The stoker : a fragment (1913) | p. 51 |
| Metamorphosis (1913) | p. 85 |
| In the penal colony (1919) | p. 147 |
| A country doctor : short prose for my father (1920) | p. 181 |
| The new advocate | p. 183 |
| A country doctor | p. 185 |
| In the gallery | p. 192 |
| An old journal | p. 194 |
| Before the law | p. 197 |
| Jackals and Arabs | p. 199 |
| A visit to the mine | p. 204 |
| The neighbouring village | p. 208 |
| A message from the emperor | p. 209 |
| The worries of a head of household | p. 211 |
| Eleven sons | p. 213 |
| A fratricide | p. 219 |
| A dream | p. 222 |
| A report to an academy | p. 225 |
| A hunger-artist : four stories (1924) | p. 237 |
| First sorrow | p. 239 |
| A little woman | p. 243 |
| A hunger-artist | p. 252 |
| Josefine, the singer, or the mouse people | p. 264 |
| Aeroplanes in Brescia (1909) | p. 287 |
| Great noise (1912) | p. 296 |
| The coal-scuttle rider (1921) | p. 297 |
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ISBN: 9780141188126
ISBN-10: 014118812X
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 320
Published: 25th January 2007
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9
x 1.8
Weight (kg): 0.236
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