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Book SynopsisFranz Kafka (Author) Franz Kafka (18831924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime.
Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912;
The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913;
Metamorphosis in 1915;
The Judgement in 1916;
In the Penal Colony in 1919; and
A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosis:
America, The Trial and
The Castle.
Edwin Muir (Translator) Edwin Muir (1887 1959), one of our most distinguished modern poets, was, too, a traveller, translator, critic and novelist, the author of the famed
Structure of the Novel and
The Marionette.
Trade ReviewEvery time you read
The Castle, you find something new in it * Sunday Times *
Kafka discovered the hitherto unknown possibilities of the novel -- Milan Kundera
Kafka may be the most important writer of the twentieth century -- J. G. Ballard
