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SELECTED STORIES - FRANZ KAFKA MARK HARMAN GEBU...

A Spectator Best Book of the Year    "It's an extremely handsome  well-designed book  and you
couldn't ask for a better introduction to Kafka...If you've never read Kafka before or if you
already love him  you'll still want Harman's Selected Stories ."  -Michael Dirda  The
Washington Post    A superb new translation of Kafka's classic stories  authoritatively
annotated and beautifully illustrated.    Selected Stories presents new  exquisite renderings
of short works by one of the indisputable masters of the form. Award-winning translator and
scholar Mark Harman offers the most sensitive English rendering yet of Franz Kafka's unique
German prose-terse  witty  laden with ambiguities and double meanings. With his in-depth
biographical introduction and notes illuminating the stories and placing them in context 
Harman breathes new life into masterpieces that have often been misunderstood.   Included are
sixteen stories  arranged chronologically to convey a sense of Kafka's artistic development.
Some  like "The Judgment " "In the Penal Colony " "A Hunger Artist " and "The Transformation"
(usually  though misleadingly  translated as "The Metamorphosis")  represent the pinnacle of
Kafka's achievement. Accompanying annotations highlight the wordplay and cultural allusions of
the original German  pregnant with irony and humor that English readers have often missed. 
Although Kafka has frequently been cast as a loner  in part because of his quintessential
depictions of modern alienation  he had a number of close companions. Harman draws on Kafka's
diaries  extensive correspondence  and engagement with early twentieth-century debates about
Darwinism  psychoanalysis  and Zionism to construct a rich portrait of Kafka in his world. A
work of both art and scholarship  Selected Stories transforms our understanding and
appreciation of a singular imagination.

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