Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new gen...
Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as "The Judgment" and "The Stoker" -- now includes two new stories, "First Sorrow" and "The Hunger Artist."
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But I did not wait to see the end of that smile, for shame suddenly caught hold of me. It had needed that smile to let me know that the man was a confidence trickster, nothing else. And yet I had been months in the town and thought I knew all about confidence tricksters, how they came slinking out of side streets by night to meet us with outstretched hands like tavern-keepers, how they haunted the advertisement pillars we stood beside, sliding round them as if playing hide-and-seek and spying on us with at least one eye, how they suddenly appeared on the curb of the pavement at cross streets when we were hesitating! I understood them so well, they were the first acquaintances I had med in the town's small taverns, and to them I owed my first inkling of a ruthless hardness which I was now s... (查看原文)
When at the close of a working day I turn the key in my business and suddenly see before me hours in which I shall be able to do nothing to satisfy its never-ending demands, then the excitement which I drove far away from me in the morning comes back like a returning ride, but cannot be contained in me and sweeps me aimlessly away with it. (查看原文)
The Schocken Kafka Library(共13册)，
这套丛书还有
《The Castle》《Letters to Ottla and the Family》《The Trial》《Diaries, 1910-1923》《Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater》
等
。
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非常惊恐… 读《城堡》与《审判》时都没有如此可怕的体验，我回头想是不是当时太习惯将那种无力命名为父权、官僚或是随便什么，就也稀释了那份恐怖，让一切变得实在。而在这本短篇集中，太多绵延不绝，也太多戛然而止，人的千般无力都在已书写和未书写之中，无法被命名，无穷无尽，无处可逃。// “A country Doctor” “ Before the law” “Eleven sons” “A report...非常惊恐… 读《城堡》与《审判》时都没有如此可怕的体验，我回头想是不是当时太习惯将那种无力命名为父权、官僚或是随便什么，就也稀释了那份恐怖，让一切变得实在。而在这本短篇集中，太多绵延不绝，也太多戛然而止，人的千般无力都在已书写和未书写之中，无法被命名，无穷无尽，无处可逃。// “A country Doctor” “ Before the law” “Eleven sons” “A report to an Academy” 全都好到惊人。(展开)
非常惊恐… 读《城堡》与《审判》时都没有如此可怕的体验，我回头想是不是当时太习惯将那种无力命名为父权、官僚或是随便什么，就也稀释了那份恐怖，让一切变得实在。而在这本短篇集中，太多绵延不绝，也太多戛然而止，人的千般无力都在已书写和未书写之中，无法被命名，无穷无尽，无处可逃。// “A country Doctor” “ Before the law” “Eleven sons” “A report...非常惊恐… 读《城堡》与《审判》时都没有如此可怕的体验，我回头想是不是当时太习惯将那种无力命名为父权、官僚或是随便什么，就也稀释了那份恐怖，让一切变得实在。而在这本短篇集中，太多绵延不绝，也太多戛然而止，人的千般无力都在已书写和未书写之中，无法被命名，无穷无尽，无处可逃。// “A country Doctor” “ Before the law” “Eleven sons” “A report to an Academy” 全都好到惊人。(展开)
0 有用 vianne_wang 2010-09-15 01:05:37
还没有消化卡夫卡
0 有用 兎角 2021-05-26 18:36:14
God's words
1 有用 Joie 2023-11-21 15:09:41 美国
非常惊恐… 读《城堡》与《审判》时都没有如此可怕的体验，我回头想是不是当时太习惯将那种无力命名为父权、官僚或是随便什么，就也稀释了那份恐怖，让一切变得实在。而在这本短篇集中，太多绵延不绝，也太多戛然而止，人的千般无力都在已书写和未书写之中，无法被命名，无穷无尽，无处可逃。// “A country Doctor” “ Before the law” “Eleven sons” “A report... 非常惊恐… 读《城堡》与《审判》时都没有如此可怕的体验，我回头想是不是当时太习惯将那种无力命名为父权、官僚或是随便什么，就也稀释了那份恐怖，让一切变得实在。而在这本短篇集中，太多绵延不绝，也太多戛然而止，人的千般无力都在已书写和未书写之中，无法被命名，无穷无尽，无处可逃。// “A country Doctor” “ Before the law” “Eleven sons” “A report to an Academy” 全都好到惊人。 (展开)
0 有用 202 2015-03-18 06:37:56
好喜欢这个封面！！！！！
1 有用 Joie 2023-11-21 15:09:41 美国
非常惊恐… 读《城堡》与《审判》时都没有如此可怕的体验，我回头想是不是当时太习惯将那种无力命名为父权、官僚或是随便什么，就也稀释了那份恐怖，让一切变得实在。而在这本短篇集中，太多绵延不绝，也太多戛然而止，人的千般无力都在已书写和未书写之中，无法被命名，无穷无尽，无处可逃。// “A country Doctor” “ Before the law” “Eleven sons” “A report... 非常惊恐… 读《城堡》与《审判》时都没有如此可怕的体验，我回头想是不是当时太习惯将那种无力命名为父权、官僚或是随便什么，就也稀释了那份恐怖，让一切变得实在。而在这本短篇集中，太多绵延不绝，也太多戛然而止，人的千般无力都在已书写和未书写之中，无法被命名，无穷无尽，无处可逃。// “A country Doctor” “ Before the law” “Eleven sons” “A report to an Academy” 全都好到惊人。 (展开)
0 有用 兎角 2021-05-26 18:36:14
God's words
0 有用 202 2015-03-18 06:37:56
好喜欢这个封面！！！！！
0 有用 vianne_wang 2010-09-15 01:05:37
还没有消化卡夫卡