The Complete Stories (The Schocken Kafka Library) by Franz Kafka (PDF)

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The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” and “A Hunger Artist” to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, released after Kafka’s death. With the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka’s narrative work is included in this volume.

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⭐Hello All,I recently purchased this book in faith, though I was also frustrated by the lack of information in the book description. So, I will provide here for you the table of contents so that whoever purchases this book from now on can know exactly what they are getting:(By the way, the book is beautifully new & well designed, with the edges of the pages torn, not cut.)When it says the complete stories, it means it. The foreword assures that the book contains “all of the fiction that Kafka committed to publication during his lifetime.” That meas his novels, which he did NOT intend to be published but left note in his will to be destroyed, are NOT included: The Trial, America, The Castle. I have put his more famous stories in caps.Table Of Contents:THE LONGER STORIES: Before The Law, An Imperial MessageDescription Of A Struggle, Wedding Preparations In The Country, The Judgment, THE METAMORPHOSIS, In The Penal Colony, The Village Schoolmaster, Blumfeld An Elderly Bachelor, The Warden Of The Tomb, A Country Doctor, The Hunter Gracchus, The Hunter Gracchus A Fragment, THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA, The News Of The Building Of The Wall A Fragment, A Report To An Academy, A Report To An Academy Two Fragments, The Refusal, A Hunger Artist, INVESTIGATIONS OF A DOG, A Little Woman, THE BURROW, Josephine The Singer Or The Mouse FolkTHE SHORTER STORIES: Children On A Country Road, The Trees, Clothes, Excursion Into The Mountains, Rejection, The Street Window, The Tradesman, Absent-minded Window-gazing, The Way Home, Passers-by, On The Tram, Reflections For Gentlemen-Jockeys, The Wish To Be A Red Indian, Unhappiness, Bachelor’s Ill Luck, Unmasking A Confidence Trickster, The Sudden Walk, Resolutions, A Dream, Up In The Gallery, A Fratricide, The Next Village, A Visit To A Mine, Jackals And Arabs, The Bridge, The Bucket Rider, The New Advocate, An Old Manuscript, The Knock At The Manor Gate, Eleven Sons, My Neighbor, A Crossbreed A Sport, The Cares Of A Family Man, A Common Confusion, The truth About Sancho Panza, The Silence Of The Sirens, Prometheus, The City Coat Of Arms, Poseidon, Fellowship, At Night, The Problem Of Our Laws, The Conscription Of Troops, The Test, The Vulture, The Helmsman, The Top, A Little Fable, Home-Coming, First Sorrow, The Departure, Advocates, The Married Couple, Give It Up, On ParablesHope this was helpful! I definitely recommend purchasing this book, but not if you were looking for his novels. You should purchase this book, AND his novels. 🙂

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⭐This is the Muir translation of Kafka’s original works and, as such, has critically-acknowledged issues, but it is still widely used in educational settings with that caveat. It contains almost everything he wrote minus a number (2?) of his full-length novels, so it is a comprehensive representative of his traditionally translated work. It was a required textbook for a graduate English course. It performed exactly to expectations.

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⭐I will give the review five stars, as Kafka’s work is deserving of that and the book delivers that, and I needn’t elaborate upon the quality of his work as others have already done. Also, I don’t know if this is an issue of this publisher/edition, and if I simply should have been aware. But there is an issue with the paper of the book. The edges of the pages are cut inconsistently and are not cleanly cut at all. Some pages are obviously wider than others, and some have ridges due to not being cut cleanly. I got that with my first order of the book. After seeing the issue, I had it replaced with a new book, as since I bought the book new, I expect it to look so, rather than the edges of the pages being reminiscent of some archaic tomb of sorts. However, upon receiving my replacement, it has exactly the same issue! I won’t order another replacement, as I don’t desire a continuous hassle, and it isn’t that big of a deal. But the edges of both books I received are rather ugly and are a bit annoying to turn, as they turn in chunks due to the issue.

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⭐Kafka. What a guy. Of the 27 reviews so far, only 1 (brothersjudddotcom) has dared to give less than 5 stars. He did a good job with his review, but I feel I need to add some as well to help balance all the stars Kafka is recieving here, and giving the review browser a diferent angle always helps.As can probably be expected, the short stories are a mixed bag. There are about a half dozen good ones, and there are a few absolutely terrible ones. “The Burrow” was particularly painful.That said; I did not come into the reading with much biographical knowledge about Kafka other than that in the introduction. Quickly, however, it became apparent that the poor guy is not comfortable with life. Death, suicide, starvation, a feeling of powerlessness; these things run common among the stories. Kafka does not even feel human! His characters inhabit dogs, cockroaches, mice, apes, and some large burrowing-type creature. The “modern” world alienates man, so-to-speak; it is unnatural. bah. Modern times are the best times to be alive! Man only counts his sorrows, doesn’t he? Kafka sure counted alot of them…There was some humor, but not nearly enough to overcome the pessimism. My goodness, why bother getting up in the morning? The rotting apple in the posterior = the sin of homosexuality is an interesting idea; but I think it is more significant that Gregor Samsa actually starves to death. The running theme of admiration for starvation is disturbing. Combined with the “Hunger Artist,” dying because he “couldn’t find the food he liked” and “Investigations of a Dog,” where a dog (Kafka) does not accept religious sustenance or practical, scientific sustenance; rather choosing to starve to death (another dog *forces* him to eat something); Starving oneself becomes a noble rejection of life and all its horrible complicated troubles. Freedom, horrible, horrible freedom is bemoaned in a similar way to how Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor puts it. Freedom, however, defines modern thought.Kafkaism. Kafkaesque. Here are a few for you:”What help, then, do my colleagues find? What kind of attempts do they make to manage to go on living in spite of everything?””I can only see decline everywhere””the highest effort among us is voluntary fasting” “I was tortured by the fancy that I would never be able to eat again.””It seemed to me I was seperated from all my fellows, not by a quite short stretch, by by an infinite distance””I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground, I could not bear the strain of seeing around me the things of the earth.””My heart hurt, for now it seemed impossible to escape from my suffering.””…It cannot be made good, not ever.” (the haunting conclusion to The Country Doctor, a masterpiece… but still laden with an unreasonable pessimism. We are utterly powerless, at the mercy of a violent world. So?)And my personal favorite:”What are our lungs supposed to do?” I shouted. Shouted: “If they breath fast they suffocate themselves from inner poisons; if they breath slowly they suffocate from unbreathable air, from outraged things. But if they try to search for their own rythm they perish from the mere search.”The most curious thing is that in the introduction it says that Kafka sometimes read his work aloud to his friends, and had to pause often to laugh uproariously. I laughed possibly twice while reading this, the humor has not aged well. I think the only reason you’d read this is so you can say “I’ve read Kafka” and puff out your chest. If you absolutely must read something in this, read the Country Doctor. It almost has a rythm.

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⭐A waste of money. I should have read the reviews before buying this. Very short and not what it is advertised as. I was looking for a collection of Franz Kafka’s stories, so I had to abandon this book and fork out more money for the Penguin edition instead: Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics).

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⭐Having been thrilled to see Schocken producing in this series new translations of Kafka’s great works, it was a disappointment to see here merely a collection of already exist translations largely from the Muir partnership. I was hoping Schocken had extended to Kafka’s novella’s, short stories and fragments – the content of which I have no gripes about and is, as ever, indispensable – the new translations they procured for his novels.

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⭐Not a huge fan of the way they’ve edged the pages, but it’s a decent book. Had to buy it for a course, and they were specific about this edition – else I would have got one that’s a bit nicer looking!

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⭐Arrived way before the expected time, the book is as good as new, overall great purchase!

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⭐Kafka is probably my favorite existentialist author now.His writing seems bursting with applicable commentary on life. The Penal Colony is one of the most gruesome, sad, and extraordinarily interesting tales I’ve ever read. Would definitely recommend.

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