Collected Stories of Franz Kafka - Hardcover

by Franz Kafka (Author), Willa Muir (Translator), Edwin Muir (Translator)

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial--a collection of stories that represent the art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real.

Franz Kafka's imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales that are scrupulously naturalistic on the surface and uncanny in their depths.

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Introduction by Gabriel Josipovici, Translation by Willa and Edwin Muir

Author Biography

FRANZ KAFKA was born in Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium near Vienna in 1924. After earning a law degree in 1906, he worked for most of his adult life at the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute in Prague. Only a small portion of Kafka's writings were published during his lifetime. He left instructions for his friend and literary executor Max Brod to destroy all of his unpublished work after his death, instructions Brod famously ignored.