Franz Kafka
- ISBN-10
- 0521200075
- ISBN-13
- 9780521200073
- Series
- Franz Kafka
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 220
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1973-02-22
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Ronald Gray
Description
This 1973 text provides a critical introduction to the writings of Franz Kafka. Within it Ronald Gray surveys the novels and short stories, and glances also at the religious or confessional writings. He presents a persuasive and coherent account of Kafka's personal and artistic development and its meaning and value for us. Dr Gray argues that the early short stories are most finished and controlled; here Kafka recognised and managed to find a form exactly fitting his own condition, and the writing is less compulsive and obsessional than it became later. Dr Gray quotes extensively, translating specifically for the purpose. He writes for all whose who read Kafka, especially the many who read him in translation and would like a helpful and shrewd guide to understanding. Kafka's work hauntingly expresses one whole area of the modern mind - its anguish, dissociation and guilt - and this sane and sympathetic book puts him into a humane perspective.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2021-06-27
- 298 pages
- Paperback
- Black Eagle Books
Similar books
-
Franz Kafka
By Max BrodFranz Kafka gives us not only a more vivid and lifelike picture of Kafka than that painted by any of his contemporaries, but also a fascinating portrayal of the complicated interaction between two writers of different temperaments but ...
-
Franz Kafka
By Sander L. GilmanSander L. Gilman brings together Kafka's literary works, personal writings, and biography to create a compelling and accessible narrative of the literary master's life.
-
Collected Stories
By Franz KafkaThis edition of his stories includes all his available shorter fiction in a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici in ways that bring out the writer’s extraordinary range and intensity of vision.
-
Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
By Franz KafkaFranz 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 ...
-
Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt
By Saul FriedländerThis stimulating book investigates some of the sources of Kafka’s personal anguish and its complex reflections in his imaginary world.
-
Franz Kafka
By Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold BloomA collection of critical essays on Kafka and his work arranged in chronological order of publication.
-
Franz Kafka in Context
By Carolin DuttlingerAccessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.
-
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
By Franz KafkaFor the 125th anniversary of Kafka's birth comes an astonishing new translation of his best-known stories, in a spectacular graphic package.
-
Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form
By Stanley CorngoldThe first section of the book shows how Kafka’s rhetoric may be understood as the daring project of a man compelled to live his life as literature.
-
The Metamorphosis
By Franz KafkaFranz Kafka (3 July 1883 - 3 June 1924) was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, but almost nobody was aware of his writing until after his death.