Franz Kafka: The Office Writings brings together, for the first time in English, Kafka's most interesting professional writings, composed during his years as a high-ranking lawyer with the largest Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in the Czech Lands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is commonly recognized as the greatest German prose writer of the twentieth century. It is less well known that he had an established legal career. Kafka's briefs reveal him to be a canny bureaucrat, sharp litigator, and innovative thinker on the social, political, and...
Franz Kafka: The Office Writings brings together, for the first time in English, Kafka's most interesting professional writings, compos...
Franz Kafka is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century culture. The fascination of his work has long since reached international proportions, and the concept 'Kafkaesque' has entered the English Language as an everyday part of speech. This new edition of Kafka's famous story contains a critical introduction and notes which help to explain how the author achieves his particular effects. The editors are concerned less with what the story means then with how it blocks and baffles its reader, provoking them into an interpretation through its combination of clues and...
Franz Kafka is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century culture. The fascination of his work has long since reached international propor...
This title is part of GERMAN LITERATURE ON THE GO editions presenting German classic literature with in an abbreviated original text volume reaching out to foreign readers with little time or limited access providing an easy reading experience. GERMAN LITERATURE ON THE GO editions are applicable to both academic and casual readers as each title still maintains the momentum, and the style of its full original edition.
This title is part of GERMAN LITERATURE ON THE GO editions presenting German classic literature with in an abbreviated original text volume reaching o...
- Susan Bernofsky's acclaimed new translation, along with her Translator's Note. - Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Mark M. Anderson - Three illustrations - Related texts by Kafka, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Rainer Maria Rilke, among others - Eight critical essays by Gunther Anders, Walter H. Sokel, Nina Pelikan Straus, Mark M. Anderson, Elizabeth Boa, Carolin Duttlinger, Kari Driscoll, and Dan Miron - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- Susan Bernofsky's acclaimed new translation, along with her Translator's Note. - Introductory mater...
Der Text der vorliegenden Ausgabe richtet sich nach der aktuellen kritischen Edition des Fischer-Verlags: Franz Kafka, Der Proceß. Hrsg. Von Malcolm ...
Gregor wakes up one morning to discover that he's become a "monstrous vermin." As he struggles to come to terms with his new body, he realizes that he's late for his job as a traveling salesman. First his mother, then his father and sister, knock on his bedroom door in an effort to get him out of bed. His supervisor, the office manager, arrives to inquire about his absence. With his parents pleading with the office manager outside his bedroom door and his sister sobbing in another room, Gregor manages to crawl to his bedroom door, open it, and reveal to everyone his shocking new form. His...
Gregor wakes up one morning to discover that he's become a "monstrous vermin." As he struggles to come to terms with his new body, he realizes that he...
