David Ottilie - Letters to Ottla and the Family

AMERIKA
a new translation by Mark Harman, based on the restored text

Kafkas first and funniest novel tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, packed off to America by his parents, finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures.

Almost ninety years after his death, Kafka continues to defy simplifications, to force us to consider him anew. Thats the effect of Mark Harmans new translation. Los Angeles Times

THE CASTLE
a new translation by Mark Harman, based on the restored text

This haunting tale of a man known only as K. and his endless struggle against an inscrutable authority to gain admittance to a castle is often cited as Kafkas most autobiographical work.

Will be the translation of preference for some time to come. J. M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books

THE COMPLETE STORIES
edited by Nahum N. Glatzer, with a foreword by John Updike

All of Kafkas stories are collected here in one comprehensive volume; with the exception of the three novels, the whole of his narrative work is included.

The Complete Stories is an encyclopedia of our insecurities and our brave attempts to oppose them. Anatole Broyard

DIARIES, 19101923
edited by Max Brod

For the first time in this country, the complete diaries of Franz Kafka are available in one volume. Covering the period from 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafkas death, they reveal the essential Kafka behind the enigmatic artist.

It is likely that these journals will be regarded as one of [Kafkas] major literary works; in these pages, he reveals what he customarily hid from the world. The New Yorker

LETTERS TO FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND EDITORS
translated by Richard and Clara Winston

These letters are like messages from the underground presenting aspects of Kafka that would have died with his friends. We meet alternately Kafka the artist, friend, son, father figure, marriage counselor, literary critic, insurance official. A full portrait, and a significant contribution to Kafka scholarship. Smithsonian Magazine

LETTERS TO MILENA
translated and with an introduction by Philip Boehm

In no other work does Kafka reveal himself as in this collection of letters to Milena Jesensk, his twenty-three-year-old Czech translator. A business correspondence that developed into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair with a woman he described as a living fire, such as I have never seen, it shows us a Kafka not seen in any of his other writings.

Kafkas voice here is more personal, more pure, and more painful than in his fiction: a testimony to human existence, and to our eternal wait for the impossible. Jan Kott

THE METAMORPHOSIS AND OTHER STORIES
translated by Willa and Edwin Muir

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.

Kafkas survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon. There is a sense in which Kafkas Jewish question has become everybodys question, Jewish alienation the template for all our doubts. These days we all find our anterior legs flailing before us. Were all insects, all Ungeziefer , now. Zadie Smith

THE SONS
translations revised and updated by Arthur Wensinger, with an introduction by Mark Anderson

Franz Kafkas three classic stories of filial revoltThe Metamorphosis, The Judgment, and The Stokergrouped 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.

Mitchells translation is an accomplishment of the highest orderone that will honor Kafka far into the twenty-first century. Walter Abish, author of How German Is It

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