Franz Kafka

The Great Short Works (eBook, ePUB)

The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka
Redaktion: Neugroschel, Joachim / Übersetzer: Neugroschel, Joachim

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439144596
• Artikelnr.: 37921571

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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