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Amerika by Franz Kafka
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'He had almost forgotten he was in the uncertain hold of a ship moored to the coast of an unknown continent'Karl Rossmann has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he s ...Show more
Amerika by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'He is the greatest German writer of our time' Vladimir Nabakov After an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, sixteen-year-old Karl Rossman is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the land of opportunity, Karl's youthful breeziness propels him into a series ...Show more
Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared by Franz Kafka
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent. Although Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and ...Show more
Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text by Franz Kafka
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Schocken Kafka Library
Kafka began writing what he had entitled Der Verschollene (The Missing Person) in 1912 and wrote the last completed chapter in 1914. But it wasn t until 1927, three years after his death, that Max Brod, Kafka s friend and literary executor, edited the unfinished manuscript and published it as Amerika. K ...Show more
Aphorisms by Franz Kafka
$9.00 AUD
Category: Classics
For the first time, a single volume that collects all of the aphorisms penned by this universally acclaimed twentieth-century literary figure. Kafka twice wrote aphorisms in his lifetime. The first effort was a series of 109, known as the Zurau Aphorisms, which were written between September 1917 and Ap ...Show more
Collected Stories by Franz Kafka
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Franz Kafka's imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent t ...Show more
Diaries - Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka (translated by Ross Benjamin)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers.Dating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka's Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including accounts of daily events, assor ...Show more
He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka (riverrun Editions) by Franz Kafka; Joshua Cohen (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who's standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.' Joshua Cohen, from his preface to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, t ...Show more
Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka
$2.50 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.
Kafkaesque - Fourteen Short Stories by Peter Kuper; Franz Kafka
$28.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illustrating his stories in 1988. Initially drawn to the master's dark humor, Kuper adapted the stories over the years to plumb their deeper truths. Kuper's style deliberately evokes Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel, contemporaries of Kafka who ...Show more
Letter to His Father / Brief an den Vater by Franz Kafka
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Schocken Kafka Library
One of the most astonishing and revelatory pieces of writing ever produced by this twentieth-century literary icon, presented in both the original German and the English translation. Kafka s letter to his father is at once an exploration of his relationship to his father, his need to write, and the sour ...Show more
Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writerKafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech, and their rela ...Show more