The Complete Short Stories (Short Stories)

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” 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.

About the Author

Franz Kafka??(German pronunciation: [‘f?ants ‘kafka]) was one of the major fiction writers of the 20th century. He was born to a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Bohemia (presently the Czech Republic), Austria???Hungary. His unique body of writing???much of which is incomplete and which was mainly published posthumously???is considered to be among the most influential in Western literature.

His stories include The Metamorphosis (1912) and In the Penal Colony (1914), while his novels are The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).

Kafkas first language was German, but he was also fluent in Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of French language and culture; one of his favorite authors was >.

Kafka first studied chemistry at the Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague, but switched after two weeks to law. This offered a range of career possibilities, which pleased his father, and required a longer course of study that gave Kafka time to take classes in German studies and art history. At the university, he joined a student club, named Lese- und Redehalle der Deutschen Studenten, which organized literary events, readings and other activities. In the end of his first year of studies, he met >, who would become a close friend of his throughout his life, together with the journalist >, who also studied law. Kafka obtained the degree of Doctor of Law on 18 June 1906 and performed an obligatory year of unpaid service as law clerk for the civil and criminal courts.

Kafkas writing attracted little attention until after his death. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories and never finished any of his novels, unless “The Metamorphosis” is considered a (short) novel. Prior to his death, Kafka wrote to his friend and literary executor Max Brod: “Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me … in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread.” Brod overrode Kafkas wishes, believing that Kafka had given these directions to him specifically because Kafka knew he would not honor them???Brod had told him as much. Brod, in fact, would oversee the publication of most of Kafkas work in his possession, which soon began to attract attention and high critical regard.

Max Brod encountered significant difficulty in compiling Kafkas notebooks into any chronological order as Kafka was known to start writing in the middle of notebooks, from the last towards the first, etc.