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1997Q-3596258758Distribooks Inc 1997-12-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Distribooks Inc paperback
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Q-3895080810Konemann. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Konemann hardcover
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2013__3140224966Schoeningh Verlag Im 2013. Paperback. New. German language. 11.57x8.19x0.31 inches. Schoeningh Verlag Im paperback
1986DADAX0415098777Routledge 1986-03-06. 1. paperback. New. 8.26x0.29x11.69. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge paperback
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2021__3406776582Beck C. H. 2021. Hardcover. New. 368 pages. German language. 11.69x8.39x1.38 inches. Beck C. H. hardcover
1924170848Berlin: Verlag die Schmiede 1924. His final short story collection First edition scarce cloth issue of this collection of four short stories the last to be finished by the author published a few months after his death. There was also an issue in patterned paper boards. The stories are marked by Kafka's illness. His friend Robert Klopstock remembered the author in his last days: "When he finished the correction which must have been a considerable not only mental effort but a kind of shocking spiritual re-encounter for him the tears rolled down his face for a long time". In addition to the title piece the collection includes includes "Ersted Lied" "Eine kleine Frau" and "Josefine die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse". The binding was designed by the German-American artist George Salter who devised similar bindings for Kafka's other posthumous publications. Octavo. Original green cloth blue paper labels to spine and front cover printed in dark red top edge yellow. Bookplate of Gymnastik-Landheim Neuhaus am Schliersee to front pastedown their ink stamp to title page. Spine sunned a few small bumps to extremities faint marks to covers and endpapers contents clean. A very good copy. Flores p. 6. hardcover
19241145Berlin: Verlag die Schmiede 1924. First Edition. in German The last collection of short stories to be finished before Kafka’s death though it was published posthumously. Original green cloth it was also published in paper boards spine and extremities faded front hinge starting but holding strong near fine. The title story was published 2 years earlier in Die Neue Rundschau magazine the other three appeared for the first time in this book. The four stories comprising Kafka's final collection "Ein Hungerkünstler" are a culmination of his literary preoccupations with artistic alienation and the futility of human endeavor. Reading these stories it is easy to see how they form a cohesive thematic quartet despite their disparate subjects each examining the relationship between the exceptional individual and an indifferent community. In "Josefine die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse" perhaps the most enigmatic of the four tales Kafka constructs a complex allegory of artistic exceptionalism through the figure of Josephine a mouse whose singing—which the narrator suggests may be nothing more than ordinary squeaking—commands unusual attention from her mouse community. The narrative's persistent ambiguity regarding the actual quality of Josephine's art creates a tension between the performer's self-perception and the community's response foregrounding questions about the social function of art. Unlike the hunger artist whose talent is measurable through his capacity to endure prolonged fasting Josephine's artistry remains fundamentally unverifiable existing primarily through collective acknowledgment rather than objective criteria. This unstable ontological status of the artistic performance destabilizes conventional hierarchies between artist and audience suggesting that artistic value emerges not from inherent qualities but from the complex social negotiations between performer and community. The story's final movement documenting Josephine's disappearance and rapid forgetting by her community offers Kafka's most poignant commentary on artistic legacy—the once-celebrated performer vanishes "like a legend dissolving into the ordinary" leaving no trace of her supposedly transformative art. Verlag die Schmiede unknown
1924617386Berlin: Verlag die Schmiede 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition patterned pastepaper boards issue also issued in cloth. Small octavo. 85 1pp. Tiny owner name and early date on front pastedown 3/4" chip lacking at the crown of the narrow spine small splits at the joints the hinges holding a very good copy. Kafka's last collection of short stories published posthumously. The title story "Ein Hungerkünstler" "A Hunger Artist" was published two years earlier in a magazine Die Neue Rundschau the other three stories appeared for the first time in this book: "Erstes Leid" "First Sorrow" "Eine Kleine Frau" "A Little Woman" and "Josefine die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse" "Josephine the Singer or the Mouse Folk". This issue published in fragile thin card boards seems to have survived far less often that the sturdier cloth issue. Verlag die Schmiede hardcover
1924188798Berlin: Verlag die Schmiede 1924. His parting literary endeavour First edition boards issue in the dust jacket. Kafka worked on his final story collection during his last days. "When he finished the proofs - working on them must have been a tremendous psychological effort and a shattering intellectual reencounter with himself - tears rolled down his cheeks for a long time" cited in Unseld p. 273. Also issued in cloth the collection comprises the title story along with "Ersted Lied" "Eine kleine Frau" and "Josefine die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse". The cover art is by the influential German-American book artist George Salter 1897-1967. Among his other cover designs were Kafka's Der Prozess 1925 William Faulkner's Absalom Absalom! 1936 and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged 1957. Loosely inserted is the publisher's promotional bookmark for their Novels of the 20th Century series. Octavo. Text in German. Original patterned boards blue paper label lettered in red on spine and front cover top edge blue. With dust jacket by George Salter. Ends and corners rubbed splash marks to top edge contents clean; jacket slightly chipped with loss to ends of unlettered spine discreet repairs to folds toning and faint damp stains issued without printed price: a very good copy in like jacket. Joachim Unseld Franz Kafka: A Writer's Life 1994. hardcover
192432166Berlin: Die Schmiede 1924. First edition. Publisher's brown striped boards printed cover and spine labels design by Georg Salter. A fine copy in the rare and fragile dust jacket with only minimal wear. Published shortly after Kafka's death in June 1924 it is the last book for which he corrected proofs. Dietz 66. Die Schmiede unknown
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