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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679423036

ISBN-139780679423034

eBay Product ID (ePID)833405

Product Key Features

Original LanguageGerman

Book TitleCollected Stories of Franz Kafka : Introduction by Gabriel Josipovici

Number of Pages568 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEuropean / German, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary

Publication Year1993

GenreFiction, Literary Collections

AuthorFranz Kafka

Book SeriesEveryman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight21.2 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN93-001858

Reviews"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

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal833/.912

SynopsisFrom one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial --a collection of stories that represent the art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real. 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 that are scrupulously naturalistic on the surface and uncanny in their depths. 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. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times., 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

LC Classification NumberPT2621.A26A2 1993