Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka.pdf - tywls12ela

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group of five had appeared in 1910 in the Prague journal Bohemia, under
the title Betrachtungen.
“Der Heizer” (The Stoker, 1913), separate publicaton of the opening
chapter of the unfinished novel Der Verschollene.
“Das Urteil” (The Judgment), written September 1912, first published
in 1913 in the journal Arkadia, then in 1916 as a separate volume in Kurt
Wolff’s series Der jüngste Tag.
“Die Verwandlung” (The Metamorphosis), written fall 1912, published
1915 in the journal Die weißen Blätter.
“In der Strafkolonie” (In the Penal Colony), written fall 1914, published
1919.
Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor), a collection of short stories written
in 1916–17, published 1919. Includes the following texts discussed in the
present volume: “Auf der Galerie” (Up in the Gallery), “Vor dem Gesetz”
(Before the Law), “Schakale und Araber” (Jackals and Arabs), “Die Sorge
des Hausvaters” (The Cares of a Family Man), and “Ein Bericht für eine
Akademie” (A Report to an Academy), as well as the title story.
Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist), a collection proofread by
Kafka and published posthumously in 1924. Includes “Erstes Leid” (First
Sorrow) and “Ein Hungerkünstler” (1922), “Eine kleine Frau” (A Little
Woman, 1923), and “Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse”
(Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk, 1924).
The most interesting of the uncollected texts are “Die Aeroplane in
Brescia” (The Airplanes in Brescia, 1909), about the visit of Kafka and
Brod to an air-show; and “Der Kübelreiter” (The Bucket Rider, 1917),
a wild vision of the wartime coal shortage.
Volume Two: Der Verschollene (The Missing Person, written 1911–13),
includes six numbered chapters, two lengthy additional texts, and three
fragments.
Volume Three: Der Proceß, written 1914–15, includes ten “canonical”
chapters and six fragments.
Volume Four: Das Schloß, written 1922–23, includes twenty-five chapters,
many clearly incomplete.
Volume Five: Beschreibung eines Kampfes und andere Schriften aus dem
Nachlaß (Description of a Struggle and Other Writings from the Literary
Remains).
This and the following three volumes mark the decisive step forward
in the Critical Edition: all Kafka’s unpublished fictions are included, in