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The Refusal" (German: "Die Abweisung"), [1] also known as "Unser Städtchen liegt …", is a short story by Franz Kafka. Written in the autumn of 1920, [ 2 ] it was not published in Kafka's lifetime. Overview
Betrachtung (published in English as Meditation or Contemplation) is a collection of eighteen short stories by Franz Kafka written between 1904 and 1912. It was Kafka's first published book, printed at the end of 1912 (with the publication year given as "1913") in the Rowohlt Verlag on an initiative by Kurt Wolff.
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.
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 .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 January 2025. Bohemian writer (1883–1924) "Kafka" redirects here. For other uses, see Kafka (disambiguation). Franz Kafka Kafka in 1923 Born (1883-07-03) 3 July 1883 Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary Died 3 June 1924 (1924-06-03) (aged 40) Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria, Austria Resting place New ...
Franz Kafka The first-person narrator is an ambiguous burrowing animal. The only direct references to his anatomy are to a "forehead", which he uses to compact the loose earth around the section of his burrow referred to as the "Castle Keep”, “paws” and “claws”.
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.
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.