Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, "The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories" has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as "The Judgment" and "The Stoker" -- now includes two new stories, "First Sorrow" and "The Hunger Artist."…mehr
Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, "The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories" has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as "The Judgment" and "The Stoker" -- now includes two new stories, "First Sorrow" and "The Hunger Artist."
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was born in Prague. Widely esteemed as one of the twentieth century’s most important writers, he is the author of the novels The Trial and The Castle. Joachim Neugroschel (1938–2011) was the translator of over two hundred books, including works by Marcel Proust, Elias Canetti, and Thomas Mann. Over the course of his career, he received many awards, including the French-American Foundation Translation Prize and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Ling Ma is author of the novel Severance and the story collection Bliss Montage. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Windham Campbell Prize in Literature, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta, and VQR. She lives in Chicago.
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CONTENTS Introduction Joachim Neugroschel The Early Stories Conversation with the Worshiper Conversation with the Drunk Great Noise Contemplation Children on the Highway Exposing a City Slicker The Sudden Stroll Decisions The Outing in the Mountains The Bachelor's Unhappiness The Businessman Absently Gazing Out The Way Home The People Running By The Passenger Frocks The Rejection Reflections for Amateur Jockeys The Window Facing the Street The Wish to Be an Indian The Trees Unhappiness The Judgment The Stoker The Metamorphosis In the Penal Colony A Country Doctor The New Lawyer A Country Doctor Up in the Gallery An Ancient Manuscript Before the Law Jackals and Arabs A Visit to the Mine The Next Village An Imperial Message The Anxiety of the Head of Family Eleven Sons A Fratricide A Dream A Report for an Academy First Sorrow The Hunger Artist
CONTENTS Introduction Joachim Neugroschel The Early Stories Conversation with the Worshiper Conversation with the Drunk Great Noise Contemplation Children on the Highway Exposing a City Slicker The Sudden Stroll Decisions The Outing in the Mountains The Bachelor's Unhappiness The Businessman Absently Gazing Out The Way Home The People Running By The Passenger Frocks The Rejection Reflections for Amateur Jockeys The Window Facing the Street The Wish to Be an Indian The Trees Unhappiness The Judgment The Stoker The Metamorphosis In the Penal Colony A Country Doctor The New Lawyer A Country Doctor Up in the Gallery An Ancient Manuscript Before the Law Jackals and Arabs A Visit to the Mine The Next Village An Imperial Message The Anxiety of the Head of Family Eleven Sons A Fratricide A Dream A Report for an Academy First Sorrow The Hunger Artist
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