Published together for the first time are selections from all Kafka's writings: The Metamorphosis, Josephine The Singer, plus his short stories, parables, and his personal diaries and letters.

It is the purpose of this volume to provide ready access to the entire corpus of Kafka's stories; they, rather than the novels, constitute the very core of his brief life's work.

Most of the entries cite works for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.

This volume begins with a discussion of Sokel's 1966 pamphlet on Kafka and a summary of his 1964 book, Tragik und Ironie (Tragedy and Irony), which has never been translated into English, and includes several essays published in English for ...

In this text the author provides an up-to-date introduction to Kafka, beginning with an examination of his life and then discussing some of the major themes that emerge in Kafka's work.

Student guide to Franz Kafka, focusing on giving guidance through the difficulties readers can encounter in studying his work.

Telling the story of Kafka's final years as never before—the third volume in the acclaimed definitive biography This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the ...

The first section of the book shows how Kafka’s rhetoric may be understood as the daring project of a man compelled to live his life as literature.

"This volume is an important addition to our understanding and appreciation of Kafka and his work.