Kafka's Selected Stories

Name: Kafka's Selected Stories
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ISBN: 9780393924794

ISBN-10: 0393924793

ISBN-13: 9780393924794

Edition: 2006

Authors: Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold, Stanley Corngold

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In 1945, W. H. Auden remarked that Kafka stands in the same relation to his century as Shakespeare does to hisKafka is the representative of the twentieth century, the poet who gives it its voice. This Norton Critical Edition is based on new translations by leading Kafka scholar and translator Stanley Corngold. Twenty-nine stories are included, accompanied by detailed annotations. "Backgrounds and Contexts" offers a glimpse of Kafka's creative process through extracts from his letters, diaries, and conversations. "Criticism" collects ten essays on the major stories by Stanley Corngold, Daniel Allen, Walter Hinderer, Walter Sokel, Nicola Gess, Vivian Liska, Benno Wagner, John A. Hargraves,…

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List price: $10.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.10" wide x 8.50" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


The Texts of Kafka's Selected Stories


The Judgment


A Story


The Stoker


A Fragment


In the Penal Colony


A Country Doctor


Little Stories


The New Lawyer


A Country Doctor


Up in the Gallery


A Page from an Old Document


Before the Law


Jackals and Arabs


The Worry of the Father of the Family


A Fratricide


A Dream


A Report to an Academy


A Starvation Artist


Four Stories


First Distress


A Starvation Artist


Josefine, the Singer or The Mouse People


Posthumously Published Stories


The Bridge


The Hunter Gracchus


Two Fragments


Building the Great Wall of China


The Knock at the Courtyard Gate


A Crossbreed


An Everyday Event


The Silence of the Sirens


Prometheus


On the Question of the Laws


Poseidon


Researches of a Dog


A Comment


On Parables


The Burrow


Backgrounds and Contexts: [Letters, Diaries, and Conversations]


Criticism


Preface to an Understanding of Kafka


In the Circle of "The Judgment"


Sounding Silence


An Anecdote by Kafka: "A Fratricide"


Identity and the Individual, or Past and Present


The Politics of Listening: The Power of Song in Kafka's "Josefine, the Singer"


Positions: On Franz Kafka's "Poseidon"


"No one indicates the direction": The Question of Leadership in Kafka's Later Stories


Kafka and Silence: An Alternate View of Music


The Rustling of Stillness: Approaches to Kafka's The Burrow


Franz Kafka: A Chronology


Selected Bibliography