The Lost Writings by Kafka, Franz
The Lost Writings by Kafka, Franz

The Lost Writings

Selected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the peerless Michael...
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Author: Franz Kafka
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Language: English
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The Lost Writings by Kafka, Franz

The Lost Writings

Dhs. 105.66
The Lost Writings by Kafka, Franz

The Lost Writings

Dhs. 105.66
Author: Franz Kafka
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Selected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, the seventy-four pieces gathered here have been lost to sight for decades and two of them have never been translated into English before. Some stories are several pages long; some run about a page; a handful are only a few lines long: all are marvels. Even the most fragmentary texts are revelations. These pieces were drawn from two large volumes of the S. Fischer Verlag edition Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente (totaling some 1100 pages).

"Franz Kafka is the master of the literary fragment," as Stach comments in his afterword: In no other European author does the proportion of completed and published works loom quite so...small in the overall mass of his papers, which consist largely of broken-off beginnings." In fact, as Hofmann recently added: "'Finished' seems to me, in the context of Kafka, a dubious or ironic condition, anyway. The more finished, the less finished. The less finished, the more finished. Gregor Samsa's sister Grete getting up to stretch in the streetcar. What kind of an ending is that?! There's perhaps some distinction to be made between 'finished' and 'ended.' Everything continues to vibrate or unsettle, anyway. Reiner Stach points out that none of the three novels were 'completed.' Some pieces break off, or are concluded, or stop--it doesn't matter!--after two hundred pages, some after two lines. The gusto, the friendliness, the wit with which Kafka launches himself into these things is astonishing."



Author: Franz Kafka
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 10/06/2020
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.30h x 4.60w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780811228015


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/06/2020

About the Author
Kafka, Franz: - Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His major novels include The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.Stach, Reiner: - Reiner Stach, born in 1951 in Saxony, is the author of the definitive biography of Kafka. The first two volumes, published by Princeton University Press, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly ("superb"), Library Journal ("a monumental accomplishment"), Kirkus ("essential"), and Booklist ("masterful"). "I can't say enough about the liveliness and richness of Stach's book," Michael Dirda exclaimed in The Washington Post. "Every page feels excited, dynamic, utterly alive."Hofmann, Michael: - The poet Michael Hofmann has won numerous prizes for his German translations.
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