Scattered Anticipation and Other Parables

  • 100th death anniversary on the 3rd of June 2024


"I am made up of literature" Franz Kafka

With a new foreword by S. Fischer classics editor Sebastian Guggolz

With his novels, stories, and parables, many of which remained unfinished and still retain their mystery, Franz Kafka is one of the definitive central figures of modern literature. No one can be left cold by reading his work. It challenges and moves us.

The selection volume "Scattered Anticipation and Other Parables" appears for the first time in this compilation. It collects Kafka's short stories that are called parables, the still hot topicality of Kafka and his never aging visionary literary ideas is shown, even 100 years after his death.

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  • Publisher: FISCHER Taschenbuch
  • Release: 25.10.2023
  • ISBN: 978-3-596-70965-6
  • 160 Pages
  • Series: Die sieben wichtigsten Werke des Jahrhundertschriftstellers
  • Author: Franz Kafka
  • Edited by: Sebastian Guggolz
Scattered Anticipation and Other Parables
Franz Kafka Scattered Anticipation and Other Parables
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.