Kafka's characters are victims of forces beyond their control, estranged and rootless citizens deceived by authoritarian power. Filled with claustrophobic description and existential profundity, Kafka has been compared to a literary Woody Allen.
»Briefe schreiben heißt sich vor den Gespenstern entblößen, worauf sie gierig warten. Geschriebene Küsse kommen nicht an ihren Ort, sondern werden von den Gespenstern auf dem Wege ausge-trunken . .« Zu Beginn des Jahres...
Eines Morgens erwacht Gregor Samsa und ist in einen riesigen Käfer verwandelt. Das revoltierende Unbehagen in ihm - gegen seinen Beruf, seine Familie - hat sich eine äußere Gestalt geschaffen. Die Eltern und die Schwester ekeln sich nun...
Amerika, der erste große Roman Franz Kafkas, erzählt die Geschichte des jungen Karl Roßmann, der wegen eines unhaltbaren Verhältnisses auswandern muß und versucht, sich in der rationalisierten und unpersönlichen Neuen Welt...
When Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect, his family are understandably perturbed. Thus begins one of Kafka's most famous stories, now available in "Vintage Classics".
This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his fatherâs opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered.&acir...
Presents a terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. This book is a vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded...
Al despertar Gregorio Samsa una mañana, tras un sueño intranquilo, encontróse en su cama convertido en un monstruoso insecto¿Qué origina esta súbita transformación? A través de la metamor...
Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with light in this highly charged and enormously nuanced...
A brilliant translation of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, revealing a tale that is as full of energy and power as it was when it was first written. From the author of The Metamorphosis.