Kafka's Selected Stories: A Norton Critical Edition [Paperback]

This Norton Critical Edition is based on new translations by leading Kafka scholar and translator Stanley Corngold. Thirty stories are included, accompanied by detailed annotations. Backgrounds and Contexts offers a glimpse of Kafkas creative process through extracts from his letters, diaries, and conversations. Criticism collects ten essays on the major stories by Stanley Corngold, Danielle Allen, Walter Hinderer, Walter Sokel, Nicola Gess, Vivian Liska, Benno Wagner, John A. Hargraves, and Gerhard Kurz. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.In 1945, W. H. Auden remarked that Kafka stands in the same relation to his century as Shakespeare does to hisKafka is the representative of the twentieth century, the poet who gives it its voice.