Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
Book Review: 3 Stars
If this is the "COMPLETE" version of his stories why don't I see The Trial and The Castle listed? Seems "complete", as in "free", has a whole new definition these days. Buyer take note!Book Review: Contexts for Kafka
Summary: 5 Stars
Who could argue with the below reviews? The book is breathtaking. The short fiction is not really a "good introduction" to Kafka, though, it is Kafka at his best. In relation to what the top 10 reviewer (with whom I otherwise very much agree) says below, however, I would add that this imagination did not merely spring from the "ordinary life" of an insurance clerk, but from the extraordinary historical condition of turn-of-the-century German and Jewish Prague. Two recommendations: Mark Anderson's *Kafka's Clothes* is a literary analysis of several of these works in the context of the declining Habsburg Empire; Scott Spector's *Prague Territories* relates Kafka's whole generation of German-Jewish Prague writers to the nationality conflict between Czechs, Germans, and Jews. Contexts for Kafka!Book Review: Country doctor
Summary: 5 Stars
Just reread "Country Doctor" last night and man alive, what a thing that is. When the old man makes his comeback, it scares me visually. You want some real shock and horror? Read this guy.Book Review: Doesn't Get More Influential than this
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best of the best. Kafka is a lonely reclusive German man who sold insurance and wrote in his spare time. One of the most imaginative writers ever, and certainly one of the most influential. If you like anything written by Charlie Kaufman, he draws a lot of inspiration from Kafka. So do countless other writers. For the people who are unfamiliar, and maybe not open minded to Kafka it may be a strange experience. But, if you read his work ready for whatever is coming next, no matter how surreal, this will be an amazing experience.Book Review: Easy to read and yet impossible to pin down
Summary: 5 Stars
Kafka is easy to read and yet impossible to pin down. Often the readers analysis and interpretation says more about the reader than about Kafka himself. That I think is the beauty af Kafka, his themes are timeless and are the source for endless discussion.
Compared to his contemporaries Kafka uses very simple german and the german editions should be very accessible to language students.