The Burrow
Posthumously Published Short Fiction
$19.54
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2019
Summary
A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka’s most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction.
After Franz Kafka’s death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of literary disobedience, his executor refused to agree to Kafka’s wish that his great mass of unpublished fiction be destroyed. This fiction included not only The Castle and The Trial but also the amazingly varied, chilling and ingenious short works collected in The Burrow and Other…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241372593 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241372593 |
| Author: | Franz Kafka, Michael Hofmann |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
A superb translation… alerts us to the strangeness of Kafka’s world - often funnier or happier than we give it credit for - without using the word “Kafkaesque”, which should be retired as it now means little more than “frustratingly bureaucratic”. Kafka’s world is richer, and more rewarding than that. – Nick Lezard * Guardian *
Kafka’s posthumously published short fiction cry out for a critical exegesis… newly translated by Michael Hofmann, the stories collected in The Burrow mingle dark comedy with a proto-surrealist intent to unsettle…excellent new translations – Ian Thomson * New Statesman *
Hofmann, with his taste for mischief, makes Kafka, often translated in a buttoned-up key, a writer capable of blending old-fashioned literary parlance and contemporary media-speak… the modern touches also emphasise the timelessness of Kafka’s themes, the horror of institutions being just one of them. – Anna Aslanyan * Financial Times *
About The Author
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.
Michael Hofmann is a poet and translator from the German. He has translated four books by Hans Fallada, in addition to works by Franz Kafka, Ernst Jünger, Irmgard Keun and Jakob Wassermann.
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