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translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
Kafka's first and funniest novel tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossman who, "packed off to America" by his parents, finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures.
translated by Willa and Edwin Muir and with an homage by Thomas Mann
Franz Kafka's final great novel, the haunting tale of a man known only as K. and his endless struggle against an inscrutable authority to gain admittance to a castle, it is often cited as Kafka's most autobiographical work.
"One of the classics of twentieth-century literature." --New York Times
edited by Nahum N. Glatzer, with a forward by John Updike
All of Kafka's stories are collected here in one comprehensive volume; with the exception of the three novels, the whole of his narrative work is included.
"The Complete Stories is an encyclopedia of our insecurities and our brave attempts to oppose them." --Anatole Broyard
edited by Max Brod
For the first time in this country, the complete diaries of Franz Kafka are available in one volume. Covering the period from 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka's death, they reveal the essential Kafka behind the enigmatic artist.
"It is likely that these journals will be regarded as one of [Kafka's] major literary works; in these pages, he reveals what he customarily hid from the world." --New Yorker
translated by Richard and Clara Winston
Kafka's letters to the people closest to him form a deeply revealing--and unexpectedly charming--portrait of one of this century's greatest writers.
"Affords us an inside view of a writer who, perhaps more than any other novelist or poet in our century, stands at the center of our culture." --Robert Alter, New York Times Book Review
translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
This powerful collection brings together all the stories Franz Kafka published during his lifetime, including "The Judgment," "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor," and "A Hunger Artist."
edited by Nahum N. Glatzer
In this volume of collected pieces, Kafka re-examines and boldly rewrites some basic mythological tales of Ancient Israel, Hellas, the Far East, and the West, making them creations of his own imagination. A bilingual edition, in German and English.
translations revised and updated by Arthur Wensinger, with an introduction by Mark Anderson
Franz Kafka's three classic stories of filial revolt--"The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," and "The Stoker"--grouped together with his own poignant "Letter to His Father," take on fresh, compelling meaning.
"Kafka is the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relationship to our age as Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs." --W.H. Auden
translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
The terrifying story of Joseph K., his arrest and trial, is one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
"Here we are taken to the limits of human thought. Indeed everything in this work is, in the true sense, essential. It states the problem of the absurd in its entirety." --Albert Camus
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