Kafka Collection

Franz Kafka is one of the iconic figures of modern world literature. His fiction explores universal moral problems of guilt, responsibility, and freedom, and he also examines the mechanisms of power by which authorities can subtly coerce and subjugate the individivual, as well as the individual's scope for resisting authority. This unique collection brings together new translations of Kafka's major works in a uniform edition that includes invaluable introductions and notes in every volume. It includes The Trial, The Metamorphosis, The Castle, the major short stories, and his first novel, The Man who Disappeared. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Ritchie Robertson (General Editor)(Translator, The Man Who Disappeared) is aTaylor Professor of German at Oxford University and co-director of the Oxford Kafka Research Center. He is the author of Kafka: A Very Short Introduction and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann. Joyce Crick (Translator, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories) (A Hunger Artist and Other Stories) taught German at University College London until her retirement. Her translation of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams won the Shlegel-Tieck Prize in 2000. Anthea Bell (Translator, The Castle) is a freelance translator and the winner of numerous awards for her work, including three Schlegel-Tieck Awards, the Wolff Award, and the Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation. Mike Mitchell (Translator, The Trial) taught at the universities of Reading and Stirling before becoming a full-time translator. He has translated numerous works of German fiction for which he has been eight times shortlisted for prizes. His translation of Rosendorfer's Letters Back to Ancient China won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize in 1998.