Konundrum : selected prose / of Franz Kafka ; selected and translated from the German by Peter Wortsman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924, author.

Contributor:

Wortsman, Peter, compiler, translator.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English. 2016

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Translations into English.

Kafka, Franz.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Correspondence.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Diaries.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

Short stories, German--Translations into English.

Short stories, German.

Genre:

Translations.

Diaries.

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

381 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

First Archipelago Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2016.

Language Note:

In English, translated from the original German.

Summary:

"In this new selection and translation, Peter Wortsman mines Franz Kafka's entire opus of short prose--including works published in the author's brief lifetime, stories published posthumously, journals, and letters--for narratives that sound the imaginative depths of the great German-Jewish scribe from Prague. It is the first volume in English to consider his deeply strange, resonantly humane letters and journal entries alongside his classic short fiction and lyrical vignettes. 'Transformed' is a vivid retranslation of one of Kafka's signature stories, 'Die Verwandlung,' commonly rendered in English as 'The Metamorphosis.' Composed of short, black-comic parables, fables, fairy tales, reflections, as well as classic stories like 'In the Penal Colony,' Kafka's uncanny foreshadowing of the Twentieth Century's nightmare, Konundrum refreshes the writer's mythic storytelling powers for a new generation of readers."-- Provided by publisher

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0914671510

9780914671510

OCLC:

933567540

Publisher Number:

99969766179