Collected Stories of Franz Kafka : Introduction by Gabriel Josipovici

ebook, 568 pages Published 1946 Everyman’s library (2015) TheGreatestBooks.org Top 500 Ever | [The cover is borrowed from Schocken Books edition which is titled "The Complete Stories..." but contains the same stories with slight variation] Original translation by: Willa and Edwin Muir / Tania and James Stern Franz Kafka’s imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real. This edition of his stories includes all his available shorter fiction in a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici in ways that bring out the writer’s extraordinary range and intensity of vision. This collection includes all of the writings of Kafka except his novels: The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927). From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial —a collection of stories that represent the art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real. Franz Kafka’s imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales that are scrupulously naturalistic on the surface and uncanny in their depths. This edition of his stories includes all his available shorter fiction in a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici in ways that bring out the writer’s extraordinary range and intensity of vision. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Franz Kafka's imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real. This edition of his stories includes all his available shorter fiction in a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici in ways that bring out the writer's extraordinary range and intensity of vision. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir Collects Kafka's short stories and parables, each reflecting his concern for modern man's search for identity, place, and purpose Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime. Franz Kafka ; Edited And Introduced By Gabriel Josipovici. Translated From The German. Bibliography: P. Xli.