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Informationen zum Autor Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels! The Trial ! The Castle ! and Amerika ! were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod. Klappentext Malcolm Pasley's translations! together with those in a forthcoming companion volume! The Transformation ('Metamorphosis') and Other Stories! are distinctive in that they illuminate Kafka's life as well as his art by presenting the works in the sequence in which they were written. Unlike other editions popularly available! this one has been prepared directly from the author's manuscripts. In its fidelity to the text it vastly alters our received versions of many of Kafka's greatest works! besides correcting numerous errors of detail. This volume contains the major short works left by Kafka! including Blumfeld! an Elderly Bachelor! The Great Wall of China and Investigations of a Dog! together with The Collected Aphorisms and He: Aphorisms from the 1920 Diary. Zusammenfassung A collection of short stories. It includes "The Great Wall of China"! "Blumfeld"! "An Elderly Bachelor"! "Investigations of a Dog" and the author's sequences of aphorisms! with fables and parables on subjects ranging from the legend of Prometheus to the Tower of Babel.
