by Franz Kafka
—New Yorker
LETTERS TO FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND EDITORS
translated by Richard and Clara Winston
Kafka’s letters to the people closest to him form a deeply revealing—and unexpectedly charming—portrait of one of this century’s greatest writers.
“Affords us an inside view of a writer who, perhaps more than any other novelist or poet in our century, stands at the center of our culture.”
—Robert Alter, New York Times Book Review
THE METAMORPHOSIS, IN THE PENAL COLONY,
AND OTHER STORIES
translated by Willa and Edwin Muir,
with a foreword by Anne Rice
This powerful collection brings together all the stories Franz Kafka published during his lifetime, including “The Judgment,” “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” “A Country Doctor,” and “A Hunger Artist.”
PARABLES AND PARADOXES
edited by Nahum N. Glatzer
In this volume of collected pieces, Kafka re-examines and boldly rewrites some basic mythological tales of Ancient Israel, Hellas, the Far East, and the West, making them creations of his own imagination. A bilingual edition, in German and English.
THE SONS
translations revised and updated by Arthur Wensinger,
with an introduction by Mark Anderson
Franz Kafka’s three classic stories of filial revolt—“The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker”—grouped together with his own poignant “Letter to His Father,” take on fresh, compelling meaning.
“Kafka is the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relationship to our age as Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs.”
—W. H. Auden
THE TRIAL
a new translation by Breon Mitchell, based on the restored text
The terrifying story of Joseph K., his arrest and trial, is one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
“Mitchell’s translation is an accomplishment of the highest order —one that will honor Kafka far into the twenty-first century.”
—Walter Abish, author of How German Is It