Book description
This collection of new translations brings together the small
proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It
includes
Metamorphosis
, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and
alienation; Meditation
, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement
, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker
, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating
occasional piece, The Aeroplanes at Brescia
, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these
stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the
extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.
Franz Kafka
(1883-1924) Czech-born German-speaking writer. His major novels
include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926), and
Amerika (1927).
Michael Hofmann is a poet, translator and essayist. His most recent
poetry collection is Approximately Nowhere (Faber), and as a
translator his work includes Kafka's The Man who Disappeared
(Amerika). He is the translator of six books by Joseph Roth and
was awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize for his translation
of Roth's The String of Pearls. His latest book is Behind
the Lines, a collection of essays.
