{"product_id":"he-shorter-writings-of-franz-kafka-paperback","title":"He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFranz Kafka\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoshua Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new selection of Franz Kafka's shorter fiction and nonfiction work, selected and with a preface by \u003ci\u003eBook of Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e author Joshua Cohen.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eHe: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Bucket Rider\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Penal Colony\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Burrow\u003c\/i\u003e. Here we see Kafka's preoccupations in writing about animals, messiah variations, food, and exercise, each in his signature style. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCohen'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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFranz Kafka \u003c\/b\u003e(1883-1924) is one of the best-known writers in the German language. He is especially famous for \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Trial\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Castle\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as his many shorter works. He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMoving Kings\u003c\/i\u003e; the short-story collection \u003ci\u003eFour New Messages\u003c\/i\u003e; and the nonfiction collection \u003ci\u003eAttention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2017 Cohen was named one of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's Best of Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 7.48 x 4.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44318122115174,"sku":"9780374538941","price":26.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/L0o4MEZJMGVaNHdCb1VPUDJ0cVV6UT09.webp?v=1768081880","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/he-shorter-writings-of-franz-kafka-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}