The Complete Stories - Couverture souple

Kafka, Franz

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0805208739 ISBN 13 : 9780805208733

Editeur : Schocken Books, 1988

Synopsis

Book by Franz Kafka

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“[Kafka] spoke for millions in their new unease; a century after his birth, he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern man’s cosmic predicament.”
—from the Foreword by John Updike
 
“The distinction Kafka, or his heroes, draw between this world and the world does not imply that there are two different worlds, only that our habitual conceptions of reality are not the true conception.”
—W. H. Auden
 
“An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic.”
—The New York Times

Biographie de l'auteur :

Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker.” He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Schocken Books
• Date d'édition: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0805208739
• ISBN 13: 9780805208733
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512