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Existentialism
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1926)
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Major
Works:
Novels (published
posthumously)
Der Prozess (1925; The Trial)
Das Schloss (1926; The Castle)
Amerika (1927)all translated by Willa and Edwin Muir.
Stories
Betrachtung (1913; Meditation in In the Penal Settlement:
Tales and Short Prose Works)
Das Urteil (1916; The Sentence, also trans. as The Judgment)
Die Verwandlung (1915; Metamorphosis in Metamorphosis and
Other Stories)
In der Strafkolonie (1919; In the Penal Colony in Metamorphosis
and Other Stories)
Ein Landarzt (1919; A Country Doctor)
Beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer (published posthumously, 1931;
The Great Wall of China in Description of a Struggle and The
Great Wall of China).
Additional
reading
Harry Jarv, Die Kafka-Literatur (1961)
Angel Flores, A Kafka Bibliography 19081976 (1976).
Biography
Max Brod, Franz Kafka (1937);
Klaus Wagenbach, Franz Kafka: Eine Biographie seiner Jugend, 18831912
(1958)
Ernst Pawel, The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka (1984)
Letters
E. Heller and J. Born (eds.), Briefe an Felice (1967; Letters to Felice, 1973)
Hartmut Binder and Klaus Wagenbach (eds.), Briefe an Ottla und die Familie (1974;
Letters to Ottla and the Family, 1982).
Critical studies
Heinz Politzer, Franz Kafka, Parable and Paradox (1962)
Wilhelm Emrich, Franz Kafka (1958; Eng. trans. 1968)
Walter H. Sokel, Franz Kafka. Tragik und Ironie (1964)
Ronald D. Gray (ed.), Kafka: A Collection of Critical Essays (1962)
Angel Flores, The Kafka Debate: New Perspective for Our Time (1977)
Ce
qu'on fait n'est jamais compris mais seulement loué ou blâmé.
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