Kafka's Complete Works

Author: (Austria) Franz Kafka / Ye Tingfang, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2000-12-01
Features: Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was a renowned Expressionist writer in Europe. His works predominantly employed deformed, absurd imagery and symbolic intuitive techniques to depict the isolation and despair of individuals surrounded by a hostile social environment. They became a of the "confusion of modern people" sweeping across Europe and sparked a series of "Kafka fever" movements. French writer and philosopher Camus said, "The fundamental dual meaning is the secret of Kafka. To understand the absurd works, one must account for these paradoxical techniques." This Collected Works of Franz Kafka is selected from the 1994 critical edition of Collected Works of Franz Kafka published by Fischer Verlag in Germany, including all the author's long, medium, and short stories (both published during his lifetime and unpublished). This celebrated critical edition was chosen because it faithfully reproduces Kafka's manuscripts, preserving the original irregular punctuation and unusual writing style while highlighting both the completed and unfinished parts of the works. It also corrects errors found in other editions. This book retains the original's irregular punctuation and unusual writing style, emphasizes the completed and unfinished parts, corrects errors in other versions, and faithfully reproduces the author's handwritten style. It provides a valuable reference for translation and understanding Kafka's works, while also aiming to offer a new perspective for Chinese readers and scholars of Kafka.