Modern Classics Great Wall of China Paperback by Franz Kafka;Malcolm Pasley;Malcolm Pasley

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Classic (2007-05-29)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 240 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780141186467
• Item Weight: 181.44 grams
• Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.1 x 0.6 cm

Drawing directly on original manuscripts, this collection comprises the major short stories published after Kafka’s death. It includes The Great Wall of China, Blumfeld, An Elderly Bachelor, Investigations of a Dog and his great sequences of aphorisms, with fables and parables on subjects ranging from the legend of Prometheus to the Tower of Babel. Allegorical, disturbing and possessing a dream-like clarity, these writings are quintessential Kafka.

About the Author

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.