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Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime. The present volume includes all his available shorter fiction in a new collection edited and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici. The stories, which range from tiny fragments to substantial narratives, have been arranged both to illuminate one another and to illustrate Kafka's evolution as a writer - which, as Professor Josipovici shows, is more complex and radical than often thought. The extensive prefatory essay is an introduction not only to the stories but also to Kafka's work as a whole.

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‘No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times’ George SteinerAfter an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, sixteen-year-old Karl Rossman is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the land of opportunity, Karl’s youthful breeziness propels him into a series of bizarre escapades which threaten to ensnare him permanently. Though dredged with humour and optimism, Kafka’s first novel bears his distinctive hallmarks, as young Karl becomes mired in an ever more unreal and oppressive system.THE CLASSIC TRANSLATION BY WILLA AND EDWIN MUIR

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The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. AudenThis 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.

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Conjunt de textos breus que Franz Kafka va escriure fonamentalment entre el setembre de 1917 i l'abril de 1918, tot i que hi va treballar fins al 1920.

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: Novela Gráfica GAYObra póstuma de Franz Kafka, América narra el viaje de Karl Rossmann, un joven europeo de 16 años, a Nueva York en un intento de huir de las consecuencias de un escarceo amoroso con una criada y con la voluntad de hacer fortuna y labrarse un futuro mejor. Sus aventuras surrealistas se iniciarán ya en el barco que le conduce al Nuevo Contienente y necesitará la ayuda de su tío, quien le ha invitado a Nueva York, para salir airoso del primer embrollo. Sin embargo, Karl Rossmann vivirá más situaciones disparatadas y de la mano de Frank Kafka recorreremos los diversos estratos sociales de la Nueva York de principios del siglo XX.

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En LA METAMORFOSIS Y OTROS RELATOS DE ANIMALES, Franz Kafka (1883-1924) manifiesta la desesperanza respecto a su destino personal y el pesimismo frente a lo humano entendido genéricamente. Para él, el hombre está inmerso en un círculo vicioso: la pérdida identidad (la animalización del hombre), síntoma de la técnica y la burocratización, produce como reacción, en un movimiento pendular, el abandono a lo instintivo, a lo irracional, a lo visceralmente comunitario (la humanización del animal). Sin embargo, al recurrir a animales, Kafka consigue distanciarse suficientemente de lo narrado como para mostrar el dolor, el aislamiento y la desorientación sin resultar patético. Si las fábulas del racionalismo y la ilustración tomaban a los animales como figuras alegóricas para transmitirnos una enseñanza útil y moral, aquí no se encuentran moralejas. Sin embargo, su ausencia no es el resultado de una búsqueda premeditada de oscuridad por parte del autor, sino la constatación de que el mundo ha

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Al entrar en el puerto de Nueva York a bordo de un barco que se iba deteniendo, Karl Roßmann, un joven de diecisiete años al que sus padres pobres habían enviado a América por tener un hijo con una criada que lo había seducido, creyó ver la Estatua de la diosa Libertad, que divisaba desde hacía un buen rato, como si estuviera dentro de un rayo de sol que fulgurara de repente. Así comienza El fogonero, que se publicó como libro independiente en 1913 y terminó siendo el primer capítulo de El desaparecido, la inacabada novela de Kafka.Este relato, magníficamente ilustrado por Max, contiene elementos característicos de la narrativa del autor checo: todos estamos en manos de un destino que no controlamos. El joven Roßmann defenderá con vehemencia al fogonero porque considera que ha sido tratado injustamente, y de su viaje por el interior del barco, que se puede ver como un encuentro con las estructuras del poder, saldrá airoso gracias a un inesperado suceso...Como esos protagonistas

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Only yesterday, Gregor Samsa was a meek salesman, browbeaten by his unappreciative employer and depended on fiercely by his ungrateful family. This morning, Gregor awakens to discover that, overnight, he has been transformed into a monstrous insect. As Gregor frantically tries to conceal his predicament, neither his family nor his unsympathetic employer accept that a terrible metamorphosis has upended his existence. Is Gregor’s condition only temporary? Will he eventually revert back to the person he was and resume his normal life? Or might he have to accept that his transformation is only an outward expression of how he—and those in his life—actually see him? First published in 1915, Kafka’s best-known tale has inspired numerous interpretations for more than a century and helped to establish the term “Kafkaesque” as a reference to a bizarre and nightmarish experience. This collection of his short fiction, in a new translation, includes more than 30 of his short stories and sketches, including “In the Penal Colony,” “The Stoker,” “The Judgment,” “A Country Doctor,” “A Hunger Artist,” and more.

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