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Collected Stories by Franz Kafka
$42.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
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. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent t ...Show more
Diaries - Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka (translated by Ross Benjamin)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Books on Literature
An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers Dating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka's Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including accounts of daily events, assor ...Show more
He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka (riverrun Editions) by Franz Kafka; Joshua Cohen (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who's standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.' Joshua Cohen, from his preface to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, t ...Show more
Metamorphosis: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the ...Show more
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Black Classics
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remar ...Show more
The Castle by Franz Kafka; J. A. Underwood (Translator); Idris Parry (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On his deathbed, Franz Kafka asked that all his unpublished manuscripts be burned. Fortunately, his request was ignored, allowing such works as The Trial to earn recognition among the literary masterpieces of the 20th century. This brilliant translation of The Castle captures comedic elements and visual ...Show more
The Castle by Franz Kafka
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Translated by J. A. Underwood with an Introduction by Idris Parry. 'K., he said, had taken the rousing from sleep, the interrogation, and the obligatory threat of explusion from the country with a very bad grace' The Castleis the story of K., the unwanted land surveyor who is never to be admitted to the ...Show more
The Castle by Franz Kafka
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he fi ...Show more
The Complete Novels of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka; Edwin Muir (Translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In AmericaKarl Rossmann is 'packed off to America by his parents' to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation. Here, ordinary immigrants are also strange, and 'America' is never quite as real as it should be. Kafka, a Czech writing in German, never acutally visited America; so, as Max Brod commented, ' ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories by Franz Kafka
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
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. Auden This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka; Idris Parry (Translator, Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On the day after his thirtieth birthday, Josef K, a bank teller, is arrested by two mysterious agents of an unspecified organization. Confused and shocked, Josef inquires about the crime he is being accused of, but the agents will not answer, leaving Josef to decide what he feels most guilty for. Though ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Through tight dialogue and absurd settings Franz Kafka creates a maze-like prose to mimic the bureaucracy of early twentieth-century Germany, trapping his protagonist in an unlawful conviction that alters the path of his life. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, ...Show more