(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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 the achieved
art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life
palpable and real.
This edition of his stories includes all his available shorter fiction in a
collection edited, arranged, and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici in ways that
bring out the writer's extraordinary range and intensity of vision.
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