| Description |
xiv, 256 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
Penguin modern classics |
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Penguin modern classics.
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| Contents |
Contemplation (1913) -- Children on the road -- Unmasking a confidence trickster -- The sudden walk -- Resolutions -- The excursion into the mountains -- The plight of the bachelor -- The businessman -- Looking out distractedly -- The way home -- The men running past -- The passenger -- Dresses -- The rejection -- For the consideration of amateur jockeys -- The window on to the street -- Desire to be a red Indian -- The trees -- Being unhappy -- The judgement : a story for F. (1913) -- The stoker : a fragment (1913) -- Metamorphosis (1913) -- In the penal colony (1919) -- A country doctor : short prose for my father (1920) -- The new advocate -- A country doctor -- In the gallery -- An old journal -- Before the law -- Jackals and Arabs -- A visit to the mine -- The neighbouring village -- A message from the emperor -- The worries of a head of household -- Eleven sons -- A fratricide -- A dream -- A report to an academy -- A hunger-artist : four stories (1924) -- First sorrow -- A little woman -- A hunger-artist -- Josefine, the singer, or the mouse people -- App. Aeroplanes in Brescia (1909) -- App. Great noise (1912) -- App. The coal-scuttle rider (1921) |
| Summary |
Offering a collection of new translations, this book brings together the small proportion of authors' works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It reveals the breadth of his literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought |
| Notes |
This translation first published: 2007 |
| Audience |
Adult |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
| Subject |
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Translations into English.
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German fiction -- Translations into English.
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Manners and customs -- Fiction.
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Short stories, German.
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| Reading List |
ALL101 prescribed text 2024
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25- translator, author of introduction, etc
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| ISBN |
0241197821 |
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9780241197820 |
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