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The Diaries Of Franz Kafka

by Franz Kafka

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 An essential new translation of Franz Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries - a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most important, influential, and visionary writers Dating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka’s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including accounts of daily events, assorted reflections and observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, records of dreams, and unrevised texts of stories. <br><br> This volume makes available for the first time in English a comprehensive reconstruction of Kafka’s handwritten diary entries and provides substantial new content, restoring all the material omitted from previous publications - notably, names of people and undisguised details about them, a number of literary writings, and passages of a sexual nature, some of them with homoerotic overtones.
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Aphorisms

by Franz Kafka

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 The aphorism eludes definition: it can appear to be a random jotting or a more polished observation. Whether arbitrary fragment or crystalline shard, an aphorism captures the inception of a thought. Franz Kafka composed aphorisms during two periods in his life. A series of 109 was written between September 1917 and April 1918, in Zürau, West Bohemia, while Kafka was on a visit to his sister Ottla, hoping for a brief respite following the diagnosis of the tuberculosis virus that would eventually claim his life. They were originally published in 1931, seven years after his death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, under the title <i>Betrachtungen über Sünde, Hoffnung, Leid, und den wahren Wag (Reflections on Sin, Hope, Suffering, and the True Way). </i>The second sequence of aphorisms, numbering 41, originally appeared as entries in Kafka’s diary from January 6 to February 29, 1920. They, too, were published posthumously, under the title <i>"Er": Aufzeichnungen aus dem Jahr 1920 ("He": Reflections from the Year 1920).</i><br> <br> Kafka’s aphorisms are fascinating glimpses into the lure and the enigma of the form itself.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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Letters To Friends, Family, And Editors

by Franz Kafka

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 "These magnificent letters, meticulously set up and annotated, show us aspects of Kafka that were only hinted at in earlier collections and help us trace his development from unhappy young law student and insurance administrator to novelist and short-story writer of originality and genius."<br>--<i>Publishers Weekly<br><br></i>"When we turn from Kafka''s books to his letters we have a series of self-portraits desperate and courageous, always eager and warm in feeling; the self is lit by fantasy and, of course, by drollery. His candor is of the kind that flies alongside him in the air. He was a marvelous letter writer."<br>--V.S. Pritchett, <i>The New York Review of Books<br><br></i>"These letters are like messages from the underground, from the dark side of the moon, presenting aspects of Kafka that would have died with his friends. We meet alternately Kafka the artist, friend, son, father figure, marriage counselor, literary critic, insurance official. . . . A full portrait, and a significant contribution to Kafka scholarship."<br>--<i>Smithsonian Magazine<br><br></i>"An inside view of a writer who, perhaps more than any other novelist or poet in our century, stands at the center of our culture."<br>--Robert Alter, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>
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Letters To Felice

by Franz Kafka

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 Franz Kafka first met Felice Bauer in August 1912, at the home of his friend Max Brod. The twenty-five-year-old career woman from Berlin—energetic, down-to-earth, life-affirming—awakened in him a desire to marry. Kafka wrote to Felice almost daily, sometimes even twice a day. Because he was living in Prague and she in Berlin, their letters became their sole source of knowledge of each other. But soon after their engagement in 1914, Kafka began having doubts about the relationship, fearing that marriage would imperil his dedication to writing and interfere with his need for solitude. Through their break-up, a second engagement in 1917, and their final parting later that year, when Kafka began falling ill with the tuberculosis that would eventually claim his life, their correspondence continued. The more than five hundred letters that Kafka wrote to Felice over the course of those five years were acquired by Schocken from her in 1955. They reveal the full measure of Kafka''s inner turmoil as he tried, in vain, to balance his need for stability with the demands of his craft.<br><br>"These letters are indispensable for anyone seeking a more intimate knowledge of Kafka and his fragmented world."<br><i>—Library Journal</i>
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Letter To The Father/Brief An Den Vater - Bilingual Edition

by Franz Kafka

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 Franz Kafka wrote this letter to Hermann Kafka in November 1919; he was then thirty-six years old. Max Brod relates that Kafka actually gave it to his mother to hand to his father, hoping that it might renew a relationship that had disintegrated into tension and frustration on both sides. Kafka''s probing of the abyss between them spared neither his father nor himself, and his cry for acceptance has an undertone of despair. He could not help seeing the lack of understanding between father and son as another moment in the universal predicament depicited in so much of his work. Probably realizing the futility of her son''s gesture, his mother did not deliver the letter, but returned it to Kafka instead. Kafka died five years later, in 1924, of tuberculosis.
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Letters To Ottla And The Family

by Franz Kafka

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 Written by Kafka between 1909 and 1924, these letters offer a unique insight into the workings of the Kafka family, their relationship with the Prague Jewish community, and Kafka''s own feelings about his parents and siblings. A gracious but shy woman, and a silent rebel against the bourgeois society in which she lived, Ottla Kafka was the sibling to whom Kafka felt closest. He had a special affection for her simplicity, her integrity, her ability to listen, and her pride in his work. Ottla was deported to Theresienstadt during World War II, and volunteered to accompany a transport of children to Auschwitz in 1943. She did not survive the war, but her husband and daughters did, and preserved her brother''s letters to her. They were published in the original German in 1974, and in English in 1982.<br><br><br>"Kafka''s touching letters to his sister, when she was a child and as a young married woman, are beautifully simple, tender, and fresh. In them one sees the side of his nature that was not estranged. It is lucky they have been preserved."<br>—V. S. Pritchett, <i>The New York Review of Books</i>
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Castle - A New Translation Based On The Restored Text

by Franz Kafka

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 <p><b>Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman<br></b><br>Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death, <i>The Castle </i>is the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle. Scrupulously following the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, Mark Harman’s new translation reveals levels of comedy, energy, and visual power previously unknown to English language readers.</p>
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Complete Stories

by Franz Kafka

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 <p><b><i>The Complete Stories </i></b>brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony," and "A Hunger Artist" to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, released after Kafka’s death. With the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka’s narrative work is included in this volume.<b> </b></p>
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Trial - A New Translation Based On The Restored Text

by Franz Kafka

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 Written in 1914, <i>The Trial</i> is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, Kafka''s nightmare has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers. This new edition is based upon the work of an international team of experts who have restored the text, the sequence of chapters, and their division to create a version that is as close as possible to the way the author left it.<br><br>In his brilliant translation, Breon Mitchell masterfully reproduces the distinctive poetics of Kafka''s prose, revealing a novel that is as full of energy and power as it was when it was first written.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>
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Amerika: The Missing Person - A New Translation, Based On The Restored Text

by Franz Kafka

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 Franz Kafka''s diaries and letters suggest that his fascination with America grew out of a desire to break away from his native Prague, even if only in his imagination. Kafka died before he could finish what he like to call his "American novel,: but he clearly entitled it <i>Der Verschollene </i>("The Missing Person") in a letter to his fiancee, Felice Bauer, in 1912. Kafka began writing the novel that fall and wrote until the last completed chapter in 1914, but in wasn''t until 1927, three years after his death, that <i>Amerika</i>--the title that Kafka''s friend and literary executor Max Brod gave his edited version of the unfinished manuscript--was published in Germany by Kurt Wolff Verlag. An English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published in Great Britain in 1932 and in the United States in 1946.<br><br>Over the last thirty years, an international team of Kafka scholars has been working on German-language critical editions of all of Kafka''s writings, going back to the original manuscripts and notes, correcting transcription errors, and removing Brod''s editorial and stylistic interventions to create texts that are as close as possible to the way the author left them.<br><br>With the same expert balance of precision and nuance that marked his award-winning translation of <i>The Castle, </i>Mark Harman now restores the humor ad particularity of language in his translation of the critical edition of <i>Der Verschollene. </i>Here is the story of young Karl Rossman, who, following an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. With unquenchable optimism and in the company of two comic-sinister companions, he throws himself into misadventure, eventually heading towards Oklahoma, where a career in the theater beckons. Though we can never know how Kafka planned to end the novel, Harman''s superb translation allows us to appreciate, as closely as possible, what Kafka did commit to the page.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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Sons

by Franz Kafka

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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 <i>The Sons</i>."<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>
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Metamorphosis - And Other Stories

by Franz Kafka

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 <p>This collection brings together the stories that Kafka allowed to be published during his lifetime. To Max Brod, his literary executor, he wrote: "Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these."</p><br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>
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Diaries, 1910-1923

by Franz Kafka

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 <p>These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a penetrating look into life in Prague and into Kafka’s accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he worshipped and the woman he could not bring himself to marry, his sense of guilt, and his feelings of being an outcast. They offer an account of a life of almost unbearable intensity.</p><br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>
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The Diaries Of Franz Kafka

by Franz Kafka

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The Complete Stories

by Franz Kafka

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The Trial - A New Translation Based On The Restored Text

by Franz Kafka

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The Red Balcony

by Jonathan Wilson

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Sloan-Kettering - Poems

by Abba Kovner

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When Children Ask About God - A Guide For Parents Who Don'T Always Have All The Answers

by Harold S. Kushner

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Goddesses, Whores, Wives, And Slaves - Women In Classical Antiquity

by Sarah Pomeroy

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A Book Of Women Poets From Antiquity To Now - Selections From The World Over

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T'Ai Chi Ch'Uan And Meditation

by Da Liu

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The Complete Yoga Book - Yoga Of Breathing, Yoga Of Posture, Yoga Of Meditation

by James Hewitt

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