Tales of animals

With a new foreword by Kafka biographer Reiner Stach

With his novels, stories and parables, many of which remained unfinished and still do not reveal their mystery, Franz Kafka is one of the definitive pillar figures of modern literature. No one can be left cold by reading his works. It challenges and stirs.

In this first-ever collection of Kafka's stories from the point of view of animals or about animals, compiled by Kafka biographer Reiner Stach, the still burning relevance of Kafka and his never-aging visionary literary ideas is evident, even 100 years after his death.

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  • Publisher: FISCHER Taschenbuch
  • Release: 25.10.2023
  • ISBN: 978-3-596-70964-9
  • 192 Pages
  • Series: Die sieben wichtigsten Werke des Jahrhundertschriftstellers
  • Author: Franz Kafka
  • Edited by: Reiner Stach
Tales of animals
Franz Kafka Tales of animals
Archiv S. Fischer Verlag
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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was born to Jewish parents in Prague on July 3, 1883. After studying law, which he completed with a doctorate in 1906, Kafka was employed by the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute in 1908, where he remained a civil servant until his early retirement in 1922. In the late summer of 1917, Franz Kafka suffered a hemorrhage. This was the onset of tuberculosis, which he later died of, passing away on June 3, 1924, before his 41st birthday.