Franz Kafka

  • Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
    Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
    By Franz Kafka

    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 ...

  • Franz Kafka: An Anthology
    By Franz Kafka

    Franz Kafka: An Anthology

  • Franz Kafka: The Best Works
    Franz Kafka: The Best Works
    By Franz Kafka, Red Deer Classics

    This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume.

  • Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis
    Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis
    By Franz Kafka

    Written by Franz Kafka and often considered to be his magnum opus, "The Metamorphosis" tells the story of one young traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who inexplicably wakes up as a giant insect.

  • Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis and The Trial: The Meta
    Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis and The Trial: The Meta
    By Franz Kafka

    In 1999, the book was listed in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century and as No. 2 of the Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century.

  • Franz Kafka: In the Penal Colony
    By Franz Kafka

    As in some of Kafka's other writings, the narrator in this story seems detached from, or perhaps numbed by, events that one would normally expect to be registered with horror.

  • Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis
    By Franz Kafka

    The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin".

  • Franz Kafka
    Franz Kafka
    By Christine A. Knoop

    Rieger 2013). Der Offizier seinerseits wird als irregeleiteter Hardliner dargestellt, dessen Prinzipientreue von Sadismus nur schwer zu unterscheiden ist, denn während er den Erkenntnisgewinn unter der Folter als quasi-transzendentes ...

  • Franz Kafka
    Franz Kafka
    By Ronald Gray

    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.

  • Franz Kafka
    Franz Kafka
    By Max Brod

    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
    Franz Kafka
    By Sander L. Gilman

    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.

  • Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt
    Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt
    By Saul Friedländer

    This stimulating book investigates some of the sources of Kafka’s personal anguish and its complex reflections in his imaginary world.

  • Franz Kafka
    Franz Kafka
    By Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

    A collection of critical essays on Kafka and his work arranged in chronological order of publication.

  • Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form
    Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form
    By Stanley Corngold

    The 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.

  • Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt
    Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt
    By Saul Friedländer

    Looks at that major aspects of Kafka's life—family, Judaism, love and sex, writing, illness and despair—and argues that, when reinserted in Kafka's letters and diaries, deleted segments lift the mask of "sainthood" frequently attached ...

  • Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form
    Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form
    By Stanley Corngold

    essentially by the plot, which is prejudgment itself, in the sense that "the world [of experience] in Kafka's text is seen as the result of the thought process peculiar to the perspectival figure, ... Theo Elm, "Der ProzeB," ...

  • Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine
    Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine
    By Stanley Corngold, Benno Wagner

    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.

  • Franz Kafka: Mein Leben ist zögern vor der Geburt
    Franz Kafka: Mein Leben ist zögern vor der Geburt
    By Bernd Oei

    So dient ihm Kafka oft nur als Ausgangs- und Stützpunkt seines eigenen Diskurses. Kafka wird nicht erklärt, sondern den hermeneutischen Logozentrismus dekonstruiert. „Vor dem Gesetz“ sensibilisiert für die Differenz von Signifikant und ...

  • Franz Kafka: Mein Leben ist das Zögern vor der Geburt
    Franz Kafka: Mein Leben ist das Zögern vor der Geburt
    By Bernd Oei

    Er will Kafka nicht erklären, sondern den hermeneutischen Logozentrismus dekonstruieren. Anhand der beiden Erzählungen „Vor dem Gesetz“ und „In der Strafko- lonie“ postuliert Derrida die Kernprobleme postmoderner Theorie.

  • Franz Kafka: Epoche - Werk - Wirkung
    Franz Kafka: Epoche - Werk - Wirkung
    By Monika Schmitz-Emans

    Potenziert werden die Ambiguitäten noch, wenn Kafka die Türhüter-Legende von eigenen Figuren diskutieren läßt: Im ... den Titel des Textes zugewiesen wird, respektive der bestimmt, wo wir sind, wenn wir den Titel lesen: Vor dem Gesetz.