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(0)Franz Kafka
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New translations of the best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers Kafka, whose name has generated an adjective, is one of the best loved writers of the twentieth century. Known for his dark, enigmatic stories, for the absurd nightmares he depicts, his extraordinary imaginative depth is clear in stories from 'A Hunger Artist' to 'The Verdict'. But Kafka also wrote fizzingly funny, fresh stories, and The...
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"Franz Kafka 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. The Metamorphosis is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. In her new translation of Kafka masterpiece, Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity in this...
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Filosofsʹkyy roman «Protses» ye tsentralʹnym tvorom literaturnoyi spadshchyny Frantsa Kafky. Vin osoblyvyy shche y tym, shcho posluhuvav syuzhetom dlya postmodernoho teatru ta kinematohrafa. Tse istoriya Yozefa K., yakoho peresliduye nevidoma syla pravosuddya. Yozef namahayetʹsya z'yasuvaty, v chomu yoho zvynuvachuyutʹ i khto same, postupovo usvidomlyuyuchy absurdnistʹ tsʹoho tayemnychoho pravosuddya i marnistʹ sprob yomu protystoyaty. U...
30) The diaries
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"An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries-a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers. Dating from 1909 to 1923, the handwritten diaries contain various kinds of writing: accounts of daily events, reflections, observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, accounts of dreams, as well as finished stories. This volume makes available for the first...
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"Unearthed by the master Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, this collection comes as a prize and a joy. Some stories are several pages long; some run about a page; a handful are only a few lines long. Lost to English-language readers until now, all are marvels: even the most fragmentary texts are revelations. "Wonderful," Hofmann remarked, as he was translating. "It's full of the love of narration,...