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Selected Stories.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kafka, Franz.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Translations into English.
- Kafka, Franz.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- Selected Stories by Franz Kafka offers new renderings of the author's finest work. Mark Harman's English translations convey the uniqueness of Kafka's German--the wit, irony, and cadence. Expert annotations illuminate Kafka's cultural allusions and wordplay, while a biographical introduction places the man and his work in historical context.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Note on the Translation and the Selection
- Introduction: A Series of Transformations
- Wish to Become an Indian AND The Trees
- The Judgment
- The Transformation
- In the Penal Colony
- A Country Doctor
- An Imperial Message
- The New Lawyer
- Before the Law
- The Concern of a Family Man
- A Report for an Academy
- A Crossbreed
- A Hunger Artist
- Poseidon
- Little Fable
- A Commentary
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Illustration Credits
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-29686-9
- 0-674-29685-0
- OCLC:
- 1440668084
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