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Description of a Struggle is a collection of short stories and story fragments by Franz Kafka. [1] First published in 1936 after Kafka's death by Max Brod , it was translated by Tania and James Stern and published in 1958 by Schocken Books .
"A Report to an Academy" (German: "Ein Bericht für eine Akademie") is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917.In the story, an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation.
Kafka was born near the Old Town Square in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.His family were German-speaking middle-class Ashkenazi Jews.His father, Hermann Kafka (1854–1931), was the fourth child of Jakob Kafka, [11] [12] a shochet or ritual slaughterer in Osek, a Czech village with a large Jewish population located near Strakonice in southern Bohemia. [13]
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka is a compilation of all of Kafka's short stories. With the exception of three novels (The Trial, The Castle and Amerika), this collection includes all of his narrative work. The book was originally edited by Nahum N. Glatzer and published by Schocken Books in 1971.
Parables and Paradoxes (Parabeln und Paradoxe) is a bilingual edition of selected writings by Franz Kafka edited by Nahum N. Glatzer (Schocken Books, 1961).In this volume of collected pieces, Kafka re-examines and rewrites some basic mythical tales of the Israelites, Ancient Greeks, Far East, and the Western World, as well as creations of his own imagination.
Brod eventually convinced Kafka to submit his work to Franz Blei's literary journal Hyperion, which published a short fragment of the story in its inaugural 1908 issue. [1] Two further chapters were published in the short-lived Hyperion ' s final issue in the spring of 1909.
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (sometimes referred to as The Eight Octavo Notebooks) is a series of eight notebooks written by Franz Kafka from late 1917 until June 1919. The name was given to them by Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, to differentiate them from the regular quarto-sized notebooks Kafka used as diaries.
Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings is a collection of writings by Franz Kafka translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins with notes by Max Brod (Schocken Books, 1954). [1] The title derives from Kafka's Letter to His Father , which begins with this salutation. [ 2 ]