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Blurb: “The Complete Stories
EDITED BY NAHUM N. GLATZER
FOR THE FIRST TIME, all the stories of Franz Kafka-one of the great writers of the twentieth century-are collected here in one comprehensive volume. With the exception of the three novels, the whole of his narrative work is included. The remarkable depth and breadth of his shortet fiction, the full scope of his brilliant and probing imagination become even more evident when the stories are seen as a whole.
The collection offers an astonishing range of insights into the writer's world: his way of observing and describing reality, the dreamlike events, his symbolism and irony, and his concern with the human condition. The simplicity, precision, and clarity of Kafka's style are deceptive, and the attentive reader will be aware of the existential abyss opening beneath the seemingly spare surface of a tale.
An irresistible inner force drove Kafka to write. "The tremendous world I have in my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it!" For him, writing was both an agonizing and a liberating process: "God does not want me to write, but I-I must write!" Kafka's work was born from this tragic tension.