The complete novels of one of the greatest German writers of all time, collected together in one edition
Franz Kafka (Author)
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In
1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years
he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating
claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never
married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during
his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in
1912; The Stoker- A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The
Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country
Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his
death from tuberculosis- America, The Trial and The Castle.
Edwin Muir (Translator)
Edwin Muir (1887 - 1959), one of our most distinguished modern
poets, was, too, a traveller, translator, critic and novelist, the
author of the famed Structure of the Novel and The Marionette. With
his wife, Willa Muir, he was the translator of Kafka's The Castle
and The Trial. He received the CBE in 1953, and settled in
Cambridgeshire, where he continued to write poetry until his death
in 1959.
He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke
or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in
comparison to him
*Vladimir Nabokov*
Kafka described with wonderful imaginative power the future
concentration camps, the future instability of the law, the future
absolutism of the state, the paralysed, inadequately motivated,
floundering lives of the many individual people; everything
appeared as a nightmare and with the confusion and inadequacy of a
nightmare
*Bertolt Brecht*
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