kafka franz collected stories
Kafka Franz Collected Stories
Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime. The present volume includes all his available shorter fiction in a new collection edited and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici. The stories, which range from tiny fragments to substantial narratives, have been arranged both to illuminate one another and to illustrate Kafka's evolution as a writer - which, as Professor Josipovici shows, is more complex and radical than often thought. The extensive prefatory essay is an introduction not only to the stories but also to Kafka's work as a whole.
4145 Руб.
Kafka Franz The Complete Stories
The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary 'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. Auden This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought. Some are well known, others are mere jottings, observations of daily life, given artistic form through Kafka's unique perception of the world.
2387 Руб.
Kafka Franz Metamorphosis and Other Stories
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, and The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.
1952 Руб.
Kafka Franz Metamorphosis and Other Stories
A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Contemplation, a collection of his earlier short studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America; and an eyewitness account of an air display. Together, these stories, fragments and miniature gems reveal the breadth of his vision, his sense of the absurd, and above all his acute, uncanny wit.
3004 Руб.
Kafka Franz Metamorphosis and Other Stories
One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the other famous stories included here, Kafka explores the confusing nature of human experience with sly wit and compelling originality.
1736 Руб.
Kafka Franz Metamorphosis and Other Stories
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka’s works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka’s eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka’s literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.
2991 Руб.
Kafka Franz The Burrow and Other Stories
A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fiction Strange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. Some are less than a page long, others more substantial; all were unpublished in his lifetime. These matchless short works range from the gleeful miniature horror 'Little Fable' to the off-kilter humour of 'Investigations of a Dog', and from the elaborate waking nightmare of 'Building the Great Wall of China' to the creeping unease of 'The Burrow', where a nameless creature's labyrinthine hiding place turns into a trap of fear and paranoia.
2336 Руб.
Kafka Franz The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, and his parents and sister adapt to living with a grotesque bug, Gregor notices that their attitudes towards him are changing and he feels increasingly alienated. One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature, 'The Metamorphosis' is accompanied in this volume by a selection of other classic tales and sketches by Kafka - such as 'The Judgement', 'In the Penal Colony' and 'A Country Doctor' - all presented in a lively and meticulous new translation by Christopher Moncrieff. Contains: 'Children on a Country Road', 'Exposing a Confidence Trickster', 'An Impromptu Walk', 'Resolutions', 'A Trip to the Mountains', 'The Plight of a Bachelor', 'The Shopkeeper', 'Gazing Distractedly out of the Window', 'Walking Home', 'Men Running Past', 'The Passenger', 'Dresses', 'Mutual Rejection', 'For the Consideration of Gentleman Jockeys', 'A Window onto the Street', 'Oh to Be a Red Indian', 'Trees', 'An Unhappy Being', 'The Sentence', 'The Metamorphosis', 'The Penal Colony', 'The New Barrister', 'A Country Doctor', 'Up in the Gods', 'An Old Manuscript', 'The Door of Justice', 'Jackals and Arabs', 'A Visit to the Mine', 'The Next Village', 'A Message from the Emperor', 'The Concerns of a Father', 'Eleven Sons', 'Fratricide', 'A Dream', 'A Report for and Academy', 'First Sorrow', 'The Little Woman', 'The Hunger Artist', 'Josephine the Singer or the Mousefolk', 'The Great Wall of China', 'The Bridge', 'The Truth about Sancho Panza', 'The City Coat of Arms', 'Poseidon', 'The Silence of the Sirens'.
1329 Руб.
Kafka Franz Franz Kafka. Ein Landarzt
»Immer mehr von Schnee uberhauft, immer zweckloser werdend, stand ich da.« Einige von Kat Menschik illustrierte Bucher sind inzwischen Kult – nun gestaltet sie eine eigene Reihe: Werke der Weltliteratur und andere Lieblingstexte, in Szene gesetzt von Kat Menschik. Ein eisig kalter, schneeverwehter Winter; ein Landarzt »in gro?er Verlegenheit«. Ein Notfalleinsatz steht an, aber sein Kutschpferd verendet gerade in der Kalte. Vergeblich schickt der Landarzt Rosa, sein Dienstmadchen, ins Dorf, um ein neues Pferd zu leihen, doch keines ist zu haben. Plotzlich taucht ein ratselhafter Pferdeknecht mit zwei prachtigen kraftigen Tieren auf und spannt sie an. Statt aber auf dem Kutschbock Platz zu nehmen, sturzt er sich auf Rosa, klatscht in die Hande – und bevor der Landarzt seiner Dienerin zur Hilfe eilen kann, rei?en die Pferde ihn in der Kutsche mit sich … So der Anfang der Titelgeschichte von »Ein Landarzt. Kleine Erzahlungen«, die 1919 bei Kurt Wolff erschienen sind. Den anderen Figuren des Bandes geht es nicht viel besser. Ob z. B. in »Auf der Galerie«, »Vor dem Gesetz«, im »Bericht fur eine Akademie«, oder beim Odradek in »Sorge eines Hausvaters« – Kafkas Figuren werden getrieben von seltsamen Geschicken und sie tragen dunkle Geheimnisse in sich. Freilich geht es in diesen Geschichten alles andere als blutleer zu – Kat Menschik gibt mit ihren farbenprachtig schillernden Bildern eine grandiose Interpretation des ersten Erzahlbandes von Franz Kafka. Grandiose Texte, feinste Ausstattungen, ungewohnliche Materialien, uberraschende Interpretationen. Alle Bande im selben Format, alle Bande mit dreiseitigem Farbschnitt – aber jeder Band in anderer Ausstattung und jeder Band mit eigener Bildsprache. Ein Fest fur Geist und Sinne.
5898 Руб.
Kafka Franz The Essential Kafka
Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a relentless atmosphere of disorientation. Superficially about bureaucracy, it is in the last resort a description of the absurdity of 'normal' human nature. Still more enigmatic is The Castle. Is it an allegory of a quasi-feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject? The search by a central European Jew for acceptance into a dominant culture? A spiritual quest for grace or salvation? An individual's struggle between his sense of independence and his need for approval? Is it all of these things? And K? Is he opportunist, victim, or an outsider battling against elusive authority? Finally, in his fables, Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance, and no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional uncertainties and anxieties.
895 Руб.
Kafka Franz Amerika
Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent. Although Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and never finished), can be read as a menacing allegory of modern life, it is also infused with a quite un-Kafkaesque blitheness and sunniness, brought to life in this lyrical translation that returns to the original manuscript of the book.
3001 Руб.
Kafka Franz Amerika
‘No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times’ George Steiner After an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, sixteen-year-old Karl Rossman is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the land of opportunity, Karl’s youthful breeziness propels him into a series of bizarre escapades which threaten to ensnare him permanently. Though dredged with humour and optimism, Kafka’s first novel bears his distinctive hallmarks, as young Karl becomes mired in an ever more unreal and oppressive system.
1951 Руб.
Kafka Franz Amerika
Книга для чтения на немецком языке. Франц Кафка (1883-1924) - австрийский писатель. В романе "Америка" (1914) автор в гротескной и притчеобразной форме показал трагическое бессилие человека в его столкновении с абсурдностью современного мира. Оригинальный текст снабжен постраничными комментариями и словарем.
323 Руб.
Kafka Franz Metamorphosis
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. One morning, ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach. Metamorphosis, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, is one of the twentieth century's most influential works of fiction, and is accompanied here by two more classic stories.
2136 Руб.
Kafka Franz Metamorphosis
"A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul." Franz Kafka Metamorphosis tells the tale of Gregor Samsa, a young salesman, who wakes up one day to find he has turned into "a kind of giant bug". Samsa has been a model of virtue for years, single- handedly supporting his parents and sister, but suddenly he finds himself an outcast in his own home, facing a world in which he no longer has a place. Both harrowing and humorous, Metamorphosis is a strange, subtle and moving story which everyone should read.
789 Руб.
Kafka Franz Reisetagebucher
In den Jahren 1910 bis 1912 machten Franz Kafka und Max Brod unabhangig voneinander Aufzeichnungen von ihren gemeinsamen Reisen; die Gegenuberstellung der Niederschriften verdeutlicht das Gegensatzliche im zusammen Erlebten. »Das Schlo? in Friedland. Die vielen Moglichkeiten, es zu sehen: aus der Ebene, von einer Brucke, aus dem Park, zwischen entlaubten Baumen, aus dem Wald zwischen gro?en Tannen durch.« »Nie im Leben bin ich je wieder so ausgeglichen heiter gewesen wie in den mit Kafka verbrachten Reisewochen... - es war ein gro?es Gluck, in Kafkas Nahe zu leben.« Max Brod
1795 Руб.