The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka
by Franz Kafka, Reiner Stach & Shelley Frisch (trans.)
Franz Kafka’s biographer, Reiner Stach, provides extensive commentary and explanations of the 100+ aphorisms the Czech writer composed while in Zürau (now Siřem in the Czech Republic) in 1917 and 1918. What’s also very nice about this edition is that the aphorisms are provided both in the original German and in English translation. This is a book to read for a deeper understanding of Kafka and his thinking, rather than witty/universal quotes à la Nietzsche.
Other books by Franz Kafka, Reiner Stach and Shelley Frisch (trans.)
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