This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- Susan Bernofsky's acclaimed new translation, along with her Translator's Note.
- Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Mark M. Anderson.
- Three illustrations.
- Related texts by Kafka, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Rainer Maria Rilke, among others.
- Eight critical essays by Günther Anders, Walter H. Sokel, Nina Pelikan Straus, Mark M. Anderson, Elizabeth Boa, Carolin Duttlinger, Kári Driscoll, and Dan Miron.
- A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
About the AuthorKafka, Franz: -
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His major novels include
The Trial,
The Castle, and
Amerika.
Anderson, Mark M.: -
Mark M. Anderson is Professor of Germanic Languages at Columbia University. He is the author of
Kafka's Clothes and the editor of
Reading Kafka. He has written widely on literary modernism and has edited and translated contemporary Austrian writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard.
Bernofsky, Susan: -
Susan Bernofsky is the acclaimed translator of Hermann Hesse, Robert Walser, and Jenny Erpenbeck, and the recipient of many awards, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and the Hermann Hesse Translation Prize. She teaches literary translation at Columbia University and lives in New York.