Great Stories by Kafka and Rilke/Meistererzählungen von Kafka und Rilke: A Dual-Language Book

by Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stanley Appelbaum (Editor)

Overview

At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Prague hosted a cosmopolitan culture whose literary scene abounded in experimental writers. Two of the city's natives are featured in this dual-language volume: Franz Kafka, whose fiction is synonymous with the anguish of modern life; and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose stories unfold in the same transcendent lyricism as his verse.
Twelve of Kafka's stories from the compilation Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor) appear here, along with two tales from Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist). Rilke's stories include Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (The Ballad of Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke), Die Turnstunde (The Gym Class), and Geschichten vom lieben Gott (Stories About the Good Lord).
Stanley Appelbaum has provided an introduction and informative notes to these stories, along with excellent new English translations on the pages facing the original German.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486431970
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	11/04/2003
Series:	Dover Dual Language German Series
Edition description:	English/German Edition
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	739,276
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including "The Metamorphosis", "The Judgement", and "The Stoker". He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.

Date of Birth:

July 3, 1883

Date of Death:

June 3, 1924

Place of Birth:

Prague, Austria-Hungary

Place of Death:

Vienna, Austria

Education:

German elementary and secondary schools. Graduated from German Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague.