Collection “Contemplation. Favorites" of the outstanding writer and philosopher - the complex, absurd and shocking Franz Kafka, translated by Solomon Konstan...

“In the evening, when you seem to have finally decided to stay at home, put on a robe, sit after dinner at the lighted table and engage in such work or such ...

“He found an Archimedean fulcrum, but used it against himself, only with this condition, apparently, he was given the opportunity to find it...”

“He is never sufficiently prepared for anything, but he cannot even reproach himself for this, because where in this life, which so painfully requires every ...

“The true path follows a rope that is not stretched high, but above the ground itself. It seems designed more for tripping over than for walking on...”

The collection includes short stories and sketches that were not published during Franz Kafka’s lifetime (as well as the published sketch “Big Noise”)

The Diaries of Franz Kafka from 1910 to 1912. They are interesting primarily because they do not leave the slightest feeling of “diary-ness”. On the contrary...

Literary sketches, dreams and theatrical impressions, interspersed with discussions of one’s own inadequacy, reproaches, fears, torments. The eternal existen...

Franz Kafka. Lock. Novel, stories, parables. / Comp., intro. article by E. L. Voiskunsky. - M.: RIF, 1991 - 411 pp. The collection of one of the greatest pro...

The collection includes the most famous “small” works of Kafka from different years. Here are the so-called Kafkaesque nightmares - “The Metamorphosis”, “In ...

Three unburnt manuscripts, three hopeless tales, three prayers. Three novels by Franz Kafka that changed the face of 20th-century literature. Creativity beca...

Kafka's unfinished novel, better known not under the author's title, but under the name "America", given to him by his publishers. Kafka, who had never been ...