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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
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 .
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.
It is also notable for being the story that Kafka first showed to his friend Max Brod and which convinced Brod that Kafka should further pursue his writing. Brod liked the story so much that he mentioned Kafka as an example of "the high level reached by [today's] German literature" in a theatre review of his, this before Kafka had even been ...
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 story was published posthumously in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (Berlin, 1931) by Max Brod, Kafka's friend and literary executor. The first English translation, by Willa and Edwin Muir, was published by Martin Secker in London in 1933. It appeared in The Great Wall of China.
Refusal may refer to: "The Refusal", a 1920 short story by Franz Kafka; Refusals and runouts, a concept in equestrianism; Refusal of work; Refusal to deal; Refusal of medical assistance; Refusal skills; Driven to refusal, an engineering/surveying term used in pile-driving