Kafka's Selected Stories - A Norton Critical Edition

This Norton Critical Edition is based on new translations by leading Kafka scholar and translator Stanley Corngold. Thirty stories are included, accompanied by detailed annotations.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" offers a glimpse of Kafka's creative process through extracts from his letters, diaries, and conversations. "Criticism" collects ten essays on the major stories by Stanley Corngold, Danielle Allen, Walter Hinderer, Walter Sokel, Nicola Gess, Vivian Liska, Benno Wagner, John A. Hargraves, and Gerhard Kurz. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

About the author

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His major novels include The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.

Summary

In 1945, W. H. Auden remarked that Kafka stands in the same relation to his century as Shakespeare does to his—Kafka is the representative of the twentieth century, the poet who gives it its voice.

Product details

• Authors: Franz Kafka
• Assisted by: Stanley Corngold (Editor), Stanley (Princeton University) Corngold (Editor), Stanley Corngold (Translation)
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.09.2006
• EAN: 9780393924794
• ISBN: 978-0-393-92479-4
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 212 mm x 130 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 398 g
• Series: Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Europa, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / General