Synopses & Reviews
Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as "The Judgment" and "The Stoker" -- now includes two new stories, "First Sorrow" and "The Hunger Artist."
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Joseph Coates Chicago Tribune In Neugroschel's version we see more of Kafka's meaning, his unexpected comedy....In this version, we have for the first time the sense of understanding Kafka's complexity and where it might lead us.
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Harold Bloom author of Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human Joachim Neugroschel's version is an advance over previous translations of Kafka into English.
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Joseph Coates
Chicago Tribune
In Neugroschel's version we see more of Kafka's meaning, his unexpected comedy....In this version, we have for the first time the sense of understanding Kafka's complexity and where it might lead us.
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Ronald Hayman author of K: A Biography of Kafka and Proust Joachim Neugroschel has provided something that was badly needed -- an accurate translation of Kafka's stories into English. Kafka is difficult to translate, and the version we all know -- by Edwin and Willa Muir -- is full of mistakes. Neugroschel's translation is much closer to Kafka's German.
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Václav Havel In Kafka, I have found a portion of my own experience of the world, of myself, and of my way of being in the world.
Synopsis
Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as "The Judgment" and "The Stoker" -- now includes two new stories, "First Sorrow" and "The Hunger Artist."
Synopsis
Including his most widely recognized short works, as well as two new stories, this translation of Franz Kafka's writings illuminate one of the century's most controversial writers. Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories.
Neugroschel's translation of Kafka's work has made this controversial and monumental writing accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works--including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as The Judgment and The Stoker--now includes two new stories, First Sorrow and The Hunger Artist.
About the Author
Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883, where he lived until his death in 1924. Widely esteemed as one of the twentieth century's most important writers, he is the author of the novels The Trial and The Castle.
Table of Contents
CONTENTSIntroduction Joachim Neugroschel
The Early Stories
Conversation with the Worshiper
Conversation with the Drunk
Great Noise
Contemplation
Children on the Highway
Exposing a City Slicker
The Sudden Stroll
Decisions
The Outing in the Mountains
The Bachelor's Unhappiness
The Businessman
Absently Gazing Out
The Way Home
The People Running By
The Passenger
Frocks
The Rejection
Reflections for Amateur Jockeys
The Window Facing the Street
The Wish to Be an Indian
The Trees
Unhappiness
The Judgment
The Stoker
The Metamorphosis
In the Penal Colony
A Country Doctor
The New Lawyer
A Country Doctor
Up in the Gallery
An Ancient Manuscript
Before the Law
Jackals and Arabs
A Visit to the Mine
The Next Village
An Imperial Message
The Anxiety of the Head of Family
Eleven Sons
A Fratricide
A Dream
A Report for an Academy
First Sorrow
The Hunger Artist