He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka write by Franz Kafka. This book was released on 2022-02-22. He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new selection of Franz Kafka’s shorter fiction and nonfiction work, selected and with a preface by Book of Numbers author Joshua Cohen. “Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who’s standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.” —Joshua Cohen, from his foreword to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, the minor works that are actually major. Joshua Cohen has produced a frame that refuses distinctions between what is a story, a letter, a workplace memo, and a diary entry, also including popular favorites like The Bucket Rider, The Penal Colony, and The Burrow. Here we see Kafka’s preoccupations in writing about animals, messiah variations, food, and exercise, each in his signature style. Cohen’s selection emphasizes the stately structure of utterly coherent logic within an utterly incoherent and illogical world, showing how Kafka harnessed the humblest grammar to metamorphic power, until the predominant effect ceases to be the presence of an unreliable narrator but the absence of the universe’s only reliable narrator—God.
The Lost Writings
The Lost Writings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost Writings write by Franz Kafka. This book was released on 2020-10-06. The Lost Writings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A windfall for every reader: a trove of marvelous impossible-to-find Kafka stories in a masterful new translation by Michael Hofmann Selected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, the seventy-four pieces gathered here have been lost to sight for decades and two of them have never been translated into English before. Some stories are several pages long; some run about a page; a handful are only a few lines long: all are marvels. Even the most fragmentary texts are revelations. These pieces were drawn from two large volumes of the S. Fischer Verlag edition Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente (totaling some 1100 pages). “Franz Kafka is the master of the literary fragment,” as Stach comments in his afterword: "In no other European author does the proportion of completed and published works loom quite so...small in the overall mass of his papers, which consist largely of broken-off beginnings.” In fact, as Hofmann recently added: “‘Finished' seems to me, in the context of Kafka, a dubious or ironic condition, anyway. The more finished, the less finished. The less finished, the more finished. Gregor Samsa’s sister Grete getting up to stretch in the streetcar. What kind of an ending is that?! There’s perhaps some distinction to be made between ‘finished' and ‘ended.' Everything continues to vibrate or unsettle, anyway. Reiner Stach points out that none of the three novels were ‘completed.' Some pieces break off, or are concluded, or stop—it doesn’t matter!—after two hundred pages, some after two lines. The gusto, the friendliness, the wit with which Kafka launches himself into these things is astonishing.”
Best Short Stories
Best Short Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Best Short Stories write by Franz Kafka. This book was released on 2013-04-09. Best Short Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVFive great stories in original German with new, literal English translations on facing pages: "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." /div
A Hunger Artist
A Hunger Artist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Hunger Artist write by Franz Kafka. This book was released on 2022-09-23. A Hunger Artist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the days when hunger could be cultivated and practiced as an art form, the individuals who practiced it were often put on show for all to see. One man who was so devout in his pursuit of hunger pushed against the boundaries set by the circus that housed him and strived to go longer than forty days without food. As interest in his art began to fade, he pushed the boundaries even further. In this short story about one man's plight to prove his worth, Franz Kafka illustrates the themes of self-hatred, dedication, and spiritual yearning. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works of long dead and truly talented authors.
Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka
Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka write by Franz Kafka. This book was released on 1952. Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
