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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

·3.89·924,319 Ratings
“ If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? ” ― Rumi
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  • The Great Wall of China and other Stories

    2007·
    ·3.74·526 Ratings
    Drawing directly on original manuscripts, this collection comprises the major short stories published after Kafka’s death. It includes The Great Wall of China, Blumfeld, An Elderly Bachelor, Investigations of a Dog and his great sequences of aphorisms,
  • Diaries, 1910-1923

    2009·
    ·4.23·1,993 Ratings
    These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a penetrating look into life in Prague and into Kafka’s accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he worshipped and the woman he coul
  • The Basic Kafka

    1984·
    ·4.09·847 Ratings
    Published together for the first time are selections from all Kafka's writings: The Metamorphosis, Josephine The Singer, plus his short stories, parables, and his personal diaries and letters.
  • The Zürau Aphorisms

    2006·
    ·3.78·599 Ratings
    The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers are now gathered into a single volume with an introduction and afterword by the celebrated writer and publisher Roberto Calasso. Illness set him free to writ
  • Contemplation

    1998·
    ·3.68·456 Ratings
    Kafka's first published book (1913), Contemplation is composed of eighteen "prose poems," displaying the full range of Kafka's compact metaphorical style. In this new translation, Kevin Blahut has been faithful to the original German while rendering it in
  • Blue Octavo Notebooks

    2004·
    ·4.16·628 Ratings
    From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size notebooks, instead writing in a series of smaller, octavo-size notebooks. When Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod, published the diaries in 1948, he omi
  • Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature

    1986·
    ·4.18·1,165 Ratings
    In Kafka Deleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)interpreters. In contrast to traditional readings that see in Kafka's work a case of Oedipalized neurosis or a flight into transcendence, guilt, and subjectivity, Deleuze and Guattari make a c
  • The Sons

    1989·
    ·3.93·486 Ratings
    I have only one request," Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff in 1913. "'The Stoker,' 'The Metamorphosis,' and 'The Judgment' belong together, both inwardly and outwardly. There is an obvious connection among the three, and, even more important, a sec
  • Letters to Felice‎ (Schocken Classics)

    2016·
    ·4.12·290 Ratings
    Franz Kafka met Felice Bauer in August 1912, at the home of his friend Max Brod. Energetic, down-to-earth, and life-affirming, the twenty-five-year-old secretary was everything Kafka was not, and he was instantly smitten. Because he was living in Prague a
  • Stories 1904-1924

    2001·
    ·4.18·135 Ratings
    From the expressionism of his early prose pieces to his very last work, JOSEPHINE, these stories cover the full range of Kafka's writing career, culminating in THE METAMORPHOSIS, which Elias Canetti described as "one of the few great and perfect works of
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