Kafka's selected stories : new translations, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
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Kafka's selected stories : new translations, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
（Norton critical editions）
W.W. Norton, c2007
- : pbk
- Uniform Title
Available at 7 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references
Selected bibliography: p. 361-362
Contents of Works
- The judgment : a story
- The stoker : a fragment
- In the penal colony
- The new lawyer
- A country doctor
- Up in the gallery
- A page from and old document
- Before the law
- Jackals and Arabs
- The worry of the father of the family
- A fratricide
- A dream
- A report to an academy
- Fisrt distress
- A starvation artist
- Josefine, the singer or the mouse people
- The bridge
- The hunter Gracchus : [two fragments]
- Building the Great Wall of Chine
- The knock at the courtyard gate
- A crossbreed
- An everyday event
- The silence of the sirens
- Prometheus
- On the qustion of the laws
- Poseidon
- Researches of a dog
- A comment
- On parables
- The burrow
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This Norton Critical Edition is based on new translations by leading Kafka scholar and translator Stanley Corngold. Thirty stories are included, accompanied by detailed annotations. "Backgrounds and Contexts" offers a glimpse of Kafka's creative process through extracts from his letters, diaries, and conversations. "Criticism" collects ten essays on the major stories by Stanley Corngold, Danielle Allen, Walter Hinderer, Walter Sokel, Nicola Gess, Vivian Liska, Benno Wagner, John A. Hargraves, and Gerhard Kurz. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
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