{"product_id":"he-shorter-writings-of-franz-kafka","title":"He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Franz Kafka\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected and with an Introduction by Joshua Cohen\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new selection of Franz Kafka’s shorter fiction and nonfiction work, selected and with a preface by Book of Numbers author Joshua Cohen.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who’s standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.” —Joshua Cohen, from his foreword to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, the minor works that are actually major. Joshua Cohen has produced a frame that refuses distinctions between what is a story, a letter, a workplace memo, and a diary entry, also including popular favorites like The Bucket Rider, The Penal Colony, and The Burrow. Here we see Kafka’s preoccupations in writing about animals, messiah variations, food, and exercise, each in his signature style.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCohen’s selection emphasizes the stately structure of utterly coherent logic within an utterly incoherent and illogical world, showing how Kafka harnessed the humblest grammar to metamorphic power, until the predominant effect ceases to be the presence of an unreliable narrator but the absence of the universe’s only reliable narrator—God. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePicador Paper, 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4.93 x 0.75 x 7.5 inches\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 9780374538941 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFranz Kafka, Short Stories\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47837535764648,"sku":"9780374538941","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/files\/He-Shorter-Stories.jpg?v=1713822048","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/he-shorter-writings-of-franz-kafka","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}