Franz Kafka

A translation by both WM and Edwin Muir of Kafka 's ground-breaking, modernist short story The Metamorphosis, written in 1912, was reprinted in a volume entitled Metamorphosis and Other Stories.

WM and her husband are credited with having introduced the English-reading public to Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who wrote in German. In addition to translating his three unfinished novels and a number of his short stories...

The Great Wall of China and Other Pieces, the next Kafka translation by the Muirs, appeared in 1933. By the time they began this work they had increased their fees (after a considerable wrangle...

Thomas McCarthy wrote in the Cork Literary Review that this volume consolidates what is already an achieved and unique presence in Irish poetry. Her mind is astonishing—within her world Kafka dines comfortably with Vita Sackville-West .

Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues...

One story, Shell, draws from Kafka 's Metamorphosis, as an overweight single mother grows a shell and becomes a tortoise. Almost all of the stories focus on women, and the most optimistic concern...

Anaïs Nin , in The Novel of the Future, pronounced AK 's Asylum Piece to be a classic equal to the work of Kafka .

Jonathan Lethem revisited Ice in the New York Times fifty years after it appeared, in advance of its anniversary re-issue as a Penguin classic. His notice opened arrestingly: Anna Kavan's Ice is book like the...

During the early part of ICB 's career she was little regarded or understood. Raymond Mortimer was one of the first to perceive her quality, and she quickly began to attract the attention of younger...

Other texts that HC considers here are Franz Kafka 's Before the Law (a segment of The Trial), James Joyce 's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and seven works...

Organized into thirty-four short chapters on ancient Greek love lyrics, this work is a scholarly analysis of eros as an elemental metaphysical structure of human life. In characteristically eccentric fashion, AC begins her study of...

AC 's contributions include rendering Fragment 286 by the Greek poet Ibykos in the manner successively of various more modern voices: John Donne , Samuel Beckett , Franz Kafka , an FBI report on Bertolt Brecht

Desmond MacCarthy had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939...

There is a strong flavour of Kafka about this comic parable both of a family and of a state. The royal family of Evarchia (somewhere in contemporary Middle or Eastern Europe) has an authoritarian father...

Critic Edward Wagenknecht , believing that the author's creative powers were at their peak at the very end of her life, compares the book's imaginative appeal to that of the German romanticists. He argues...