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 ...
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."
Seventy-five years later, Kafka's request is granted, in a volume including these three classic stories of filial revolt as well as his own poignant "Letter to His Father," another "son story" located between fiction and autobiography. A devastating indictment of the modern family, The Sons represents Kafka's most concentrated literary achievement as well as the story of his own domestic tragedy.
Grouped together under this new title and in newly revised translations, these texts—the like of which Kafka had never written before and (as he claimed at the end of his life) would never again equal—take on fresh, compelling meaning.
作者简介
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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 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 At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished w...
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 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 At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work.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.
目录
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CONTENTS
Introduction (by Mark Anderson)
Note on the Translations
The Judgment
The Stoker
The Metamorphosis
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CONTENTS
Introduction (by Mark Anderson)
Note on the Translations
The Judgment
The Stoker
The Metamorphosis
Letter to His Father
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I should have been happy to have you as a friend, as a boss, an uncle, a grandfather, even (though rather more hesitantly) as a father-in-law. Only as a father you have been too strong for me, particularly since my brothers died when they were small and my sisters came along only much later, so that I alone had to bear the brunt of it—and for that I was much too weak. (查看原文)
What I would have needed was a little encouragement, a little friendliness, a little keeping open of my road, instead of which you blocked it for me, though of course with the good intention of making me take another road. But I was not fit for that. (查看原文)
The Schocken Kafka Library(共13册)，
这套丛书还有
《The Complete Stories》《Letters to Ottla and the Family》《Aphorisms》《Letters to Milena》《THE METAMORPHOSIS.IN THE PENAL COLONY.AND OTHER STORIES》
等
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0 有用 · ~~~~~~~~~ 2012-08-17 03:19:16
It was an intentionally long and drawn-out leave- taking from you.
0 有用 sonatanegra 2014-12-01 04:13:49
将与父书与这几篇放在一起出版，算是了了卡夫卡的心愿。与父书的收录更很大程度上帮助理解不同中短篇中人物的内心挣扎。内心极其敏感的卡夫卡与强势性格的父亲，对父亲的爱与责任和强势所遗留下的卡夫卡的自责互相intensify。也许是无解了。
0 有用 龟掌拨清波 2019-01-14 15:58:03
本学期20世纪survey课主题是“Being a Son”...
0 有用 豆 2023-03-12 18:30:29 美国
給父親的信裡寫父親在不認識的情況下就將自己喜歡的演員lowy比做害蟲，讀到這裡突然想起變形記裡變成害蟲的格雷格在父親的陰影下爬行躲閃。變形記和審判兩篇，都是那種無地自容的心境，徹骨的自厭，父與子的關係可怕之處就在於無論你長成看似多麼獨立的個體，在他面前你都會迅速變成痛苦無力的型態。
0 有用 Ringophobia 2023-02-05 13:15:20 美国
花了两天看完。整本收录了the judgment、the stoker、Metamorphsis和letter to his father，从不同的角度对于一个权威客体（通常是父亲）进行描写，最后再附上那封信….简直了…算是可以知人论世了。