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Collected Stories
Collected Stories | Franz Kafka
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Franz Kafka's imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real.This edition of his stories includes all his available shorter fiction in a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici in ways that bring out the writer's extraordinary range and intensity of vision.Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
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bookwyrm7
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"And so long as you say" one" instead of "I", there's nothing in it and one can easily tell the story; but as soon as you admit to yourself that it is you yourself, you feel as though transfixed and are horrified.", In the short story" Wedding Preparations in the Country", by Franz Kafka.
One of the many things I'm loving about this anthology is getting to know Kafka's humour a bit better.

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pigiann
I racconti | Franz Kafka
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Mehso-so

La Metamorfosi e La Colonia Penale bellissimi, lasciano una sensazione di inquietudine e di malessere incredibile. Gli altri racconti invece troppo brevi o troppo poco incisivi per lasciarmi qualcosa. Peccato.

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GatheringBooks
Collected Stories | Franz Kafka
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kspenmoll Just love this image/quote- and your photo. 3y
TK-421 I love this! ❤️ 3y
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Jari-chan
Collected Stories | Franz Kafka
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This book includes all the stories written by Franz Kafka. From small to... long-ish. What an exceptional writer, what unique mind. Even after reading and rereading and rereading again, there's always something new to find in his texts.

@TheAromaofBooks #BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4y
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meek407
Complete Stories | Franz Kafka
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breadnroses
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tentative top 10 (in the order they were read)

1. the metamorphosis
2. in the penal colony
3. blumfeld, an elderly bachelor
4. a hunger artist
5. the burrow
6. the bridge
7. the bucket rider
8. fellowship
9. the problem of our laws
10. on parables

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MrBook
The Complete Stories | Franz Kafka
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#Bookhaul thanks to big coupon 😁! I can‘t believe I didn‘t have the two on the right until now. I have the TTC in a collection, not on its own 👍🏻👍🏻.

Do you own and have you read any of these?!

#MrBooksBooks

Patchshank I have that same copy of Kafka. I haven't made my way through it yet. I also have The Prophet. I'm not big into poetry, so that aspect of it was eh for me. But overall it was interesting enough. 5y
tpixie I read The Prophet as a teen and it had great impact on me. Have wanted to read it again. ( several decades later- I better get in it!) 5y
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schadenfreude
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Why are you like this, Kafka. You hurt my depressive soul already.

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Jerdencon
Complete Stories | Franz Kafka
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Anyone else subscribe to season of stories through penguin random house? It's coming back for spring on 4/17 with some big name authors. It's a short story emailed in 4 parts.
Here's the link to subscribe and it's free!
http://theseasonofstories.com/?cdi=3DD2C5F8FC9E0C0BE0534FD66B0A7B88%3Fref%3DPRH5...

PirateJenny yes indeed! 7y
minkyb Yep! 7y
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GoneFishing
Complete Stories | Franz Kafka

My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

Cathythoughts That's one way of putting it. . Life is so short, especially towards the final furlong. Life is precious 7y
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ephemeralwaltz
Complete Stories | Franz Kafka
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I can't get over how cute these cards that @ju.ca.no included in my #cupidgoespostal gift are 😍🔝

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Dilettante
Collected Stories | Franz Kafka

Strange. Compelling. Unsettling. Leaves the reader feeling as though they've seen something they shouldn't have.

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Mairi
Complete Stories | Franz Kafka
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

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merhylton
Complete Stories | Franz Kafka
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Spent so much time agonizing over what book to bring along to #BEA16 and never even cracked the cover. I know better.