Overview
A new selection of Franz Kafkaās shorter fiction and nonfiction work, selected and with a preface by Book of Numbers author Joshua Cohen.
āBeing asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone whoās standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.ā āJoshua Cohen, from his foreword to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka
This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, the minor works that are actually major. Joshua Cohen has produced a frame that refuses distinctions between what is a story, a letter, a workplace memo, and a diary entry, also including popular favorites like The Bucket Rider, The Penal Colony, and The Burrow. Here we see Kafkaās preoccupations in writing about animals, messiah variations, food, and exercise, each in his signature style.
Cohenās selection emphasizes the stately structure of utterly coherent logic within an utterly incoherent and illogical world, showing how Kafka harnessed the humblest grammar to metamorphic power, until the predominant effect ceases to be the presence of an unreliable narrator but the absence of the universeās only reliable narratorāGod.
This book title, He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka, ISBN: 9780374538941, by Franz Kafka, Joshua Cohen, published by Picador (February 22, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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