This volume contains the major short works left by Kafka, including Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor, The Great Wall of China and Investigations of a Dog, together with The Collected Aphorisms and He: Aphorisms from the 1920 Diary.
Malcolm Pasley Books
April 5, 1926 – March 4, 2004
Sir John Malcolm Sabine Pasley was a literary scholar and Fellow of the British Academy, renowned for his dedicated work in publishing the writings of Franz Kafka. Following extensive negotiations, he personally took possession of Kafka's manuscripts that had been entrusted to Max Brod. In 1961, Pasley facilitated the transport of these significant literary works from Switzerland to the Bodleian Library at Oxford. His scholarly efforts were instrumental in preserving and disseminating Kafka's unique literary legacy.
The Castle
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. Kafka began The Castle in 1922 and it was never finished, yet this, the last of his three great novels, draws fascinating conclusions that make it feel strangely complete.
Přátelství. Korespondence
- 453 pages
- 16 hours of reading