In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. as among the greatest works of early twentieth-century literature. His most famous and influential work, Metamorphosis, depicting a man who wakes up to discover he has been turned into an insect, was first published by Penguin in 1961. These lucid stories and brief fables describe the cruel absurdities he believed dominate human life.
Malcolm Pasley Book order (chronological)
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.
Přátelství. Korespondence
- 453 pages
- 16 hours of reading
The Castle
- 390 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death, The Castle is the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle. Scrupulously following the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, Mark Harman’s new translation reveals levels of comedy, energy, and visual power previously unknown to English language readers.