A collection of critical essays on Kafka and his work arranged in chronological order of publication.
Noting Franz Kafka's occupation as an industrial-accident-insurance specialist, the authors explore the two main systems at work in the author's literary world--the official and the personal.
Sander 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.
Collects the entire body of Kafka's short stories and parables, reflecting his concern for modern man's search for identity, place, and purpose
"This volume is an important addition to our understanding and appreciation of Kafka and his work.
From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis: Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer ...
This 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 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: 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 ...
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.
This translation follows the German critical text and includes a detailed introduction and notes to this famously enigmatic novel.