The Complete Short Stories
- Publisher : Penguin Random House
- Publishing year : March 1992
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780749399467
- Imprint : Vintage
- Age Group : Young Adult
- Language : English
The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary 'Kafka is important to us because his predicament i ...
The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary
'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. Auden
This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought. Some are well known, others are mere jottings, observations of daily life, given artistic form through Kafka's unique perception of the world.
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) is a Jewish Czechoslovakian who wrote in German, and who ranks among the twentieth-century's most acclaimed writers. His works evoke anxiety, alienation and uncertainty in a world that is largely unfeeling and unfamiliar. He bequeathed his main body of work to long-time friend Max Brod, asking for it to be burned unread. Brod disobeyed Kafka's, whose work is now considered among the most original in Western literature.
