The Lost Writings

by Franz Kafka

Reiner Stach (Editor) and Michael Hofmann (Translator)

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Selected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, the seventy-four pieces gathered here have been lost to sight for decades and two of them have never been translated into English before. Some stories are several pages long; some run about a page; a handful are only a few lines long: all are marvels. Even the most fragmentary texts are revelations. These pieces were drawn from two large volumes of the S. Fischer Verlag edition Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente (totaling some 1100 pages).

“Franz Kafka is the master of the literary fragment,” as Stach comments in his afterword: "In no...

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  • ISBN10 0811228010
  • ISBN13 9780811228015
  • Publish Date 1 September 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 128
  • Language English