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The Sons

The Judgment, The Stoker, The Metamorphosis, and Letter to His Father

By Franz Kafka

By Franz Kafka

By Franz Kafka

By Franz Kafka

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Part of The Schocken Kafka Library

Part of The Schocken Kafka Library

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Aug 05, 1989 | ISBN 9780805208863

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Jan 16, 2009 | ISBN 9780307497970

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    About The Sons

    From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Trial: Three stories he published in his lifetime, including his best-known tale, “The Metamorphosis.”

    I have only one request,” Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff in 1913. “‘The Stoker,’ ‘The Metamorphosis,’ and ‘The Judgment’ belong together, both inwardly and outwardly. There is an obvious connection among the three, and, even more important, a secret one, for which reason I would be reluctant to forego the chance of having them published together in a book, which might be called The Sons.”

    About The Sons

    From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Trial: Three stories he published in his lifetime, including his best-known tale, “The Metamorphosis.”

    I have only one request,” Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff in 1913. “‘The Stoker,’ ‘The Metamorphosis,’ and ‘The Judgment’ belong together, both inwardly and outwardly. There is an obvious connection among the three, and, even more important, a secret one, for which reason I would be reluctant to forego the chance of having them published together in a book, which might be called The Sons.”

    Also by Franz Kafka

    Aphorisms
    Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater
    Letters to Milena
    The Metamorphosis
    Letters to Ottla and the Family
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    Also by Franz Kafka

    Aphorisms
    Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater
    Letters to Milena
    The Metamorphosis
    Letters to Ottla and the Family
    See all books by Franz Kafka

    About Franz Kafka

    FRANZ KAFKA was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker.” He died in 1924, before completing any of… More about Franz Kafka

    About Franz Kafka

    FRANZ KAFKA was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker.” He died in 1924, before completing any of… More about Franz Kafka

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Schocken
    Aug 05, 1989 | 192 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780805208863

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Schocken
    Jan 16, 2009 | 192 Pages | ISBN 9780307497970
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    Praise

    “The world of the officials and the world of the fathers are the same to Kafka. The similarity does not redound to this world’s credit; it consists of dullness, decay, and dirt. Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites. In the same way the fathers in Kafka’s strange families batten on their sons, lying on top of them like enormous parasites.”
    —Walter Benjamin

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