Binding: Paperback
Description: A new selection of Franz Kafka's shorter fiction and nonfiction work selected and with a preface by Book of Numbers author Joshua Cohen. Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who's standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point. Joshua 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 Kafka's preoccupations in writing about animals messiah variations food and exercise each in his signature style. Cohen's 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 universe's only reliable narrator God.
Title: He: Shorter Writings Of Franz Kafka
Author(s): Kafka Franz, Joshua Cohen
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9780374538941
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/22/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction