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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe



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The Sons (Schocken Kafka Library)

by Franz Kafka

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ISBN13: 9780805208863
ISBN10: 0805208860
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I have only one request," Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff in 1913. "'The Stoker,' 'The Metamorphosis,' and 'The Judgment' belong together, both inwardly and outwardly. There is an obvious connection among the three, and, even more important, a secret one, for which reason I would be reluctant to forego the chance of having them published together in a book, which might be called The Sons."

Seventy-five years later, Kafka's request is-granted, in a volume including these three classic stories of filial revolt as well as his own poignant "Letter to His Father," another "son story" located between fiction and autobiography. A devastating indictment of the modern family, The Sons represents Kafka's most concentrated literary achievement as well as the story of his own domestic tragedy.

Grouped together under this new title and in newly revised translations, these texts — the like of which Kafka had never written before and (as he claimed at the end of his life) would never again equal — take on fresh, compelling meaning.

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ISBN:
9780805208863
Introduction:
Anderson, Mark
Editor:
Anderson, Mark
Author:
Kafka, Franz
Author:
Anderson, Mark
Publisher:
Schocken Books
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Novels and novellas
Subject:
Continental european
Subject:
Translations into english
Subject:
Kafka, Franz
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Schocken Kafka Library
Publication Date:
August 1989
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
167
Dimensions:
802x522x43 43

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