Excellent new English translations of title story (considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work), plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor," and "A Report to an Academy." Note.
Superb collection by modern master explores the complexity, anxiety and futility of modern life. Excellent new English translations of the title story (considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work), plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." Note.
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The Judgment ("Das Urteil"; better translation of title, "The Sentence"; written night of Sept. 22/23, 1912; first pub. in the annual magazine Arkadia, Leipzig, 1913; first book pub., Kurt Wolff Verlag, Leipzig, 1916) |
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The Metamorphosis ("Die Verwandlung"; alternate translation of title, "The Transformation"; written Nov. 17-Dec. 6, 1912; first pub. in the monthly Die weissen Blatter, Leipzig, Oct. 1915; first book pub., Kurt Wolff Verlag, Leipzig, 1915) |
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In the Penal Colony ("In der Strafkolonie"; written mid-Oct. 1914; first pub. as book, Kurt Wolff Verlag, Leipzig, 1919) |
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A Country Doctor ("Ein Landarzt"; written in the winter of 1916/1917, completed by the end of Feb. 1917; first pub. in the almanac Die neue Dichtung, Leipzig, 1918; first book pub. in collected vol. Ein Landarzt, Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munich and and Leipzig, 1919) |
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A Report to an Academy ("Ein Bericht fur eine Akademie"; composition finished by Apr. 22, 1917; first pub. in the monthly Der Jude, Berlin and Vienna, Nov. 1917; first book pub. in collected vol. Ein Landarzt, Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munich and Leipzig, 1919) |
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Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including The Metamorphosis, The Judgment, and The Stoker. He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.
