The Complete Stories

ISBN-13:	9780805210552
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/14/1995
Series:	The Schocken Kafka Library
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	512
Sales rank:	39,656
Product dimensions:	5.16(w) x 7.95(h) x 1.04(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial.“An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic.” —The New York TimesThe Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” and “A Hunger Artist” to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, released after Kafka’s death. With the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka’s narrative work is included in this volume.  “[Kafka] spoke for millions in their new unease; a century after his birth, he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern man’s cosmic predicament.” —from the Foreword by John Updike