Abandoned Fragments: The Unedited Works of Franz Kafka 1897-1917

This volume collects all the texts from Franz Kafka's literary remains that originated in the period up until Autumn 1917, with the exception of the two novels The Man Who Disappeared (Kafka's original title for Amerika) and The Trial, plus the material that passed into the published Diaries. These texts — short story drafts, aphorisms, dreams, dialogues, and other shards of recorded imagination — are presented here in strict adherence to Kafka's handwritten drafts — not only in the origina...