Most of the stuff is available through the navigation bar on your left. Please note that you can get a printer-friendly version like this at any time by clicking on the print command at the page bottom. The Project page introduces you to the corpus of all Kafka works in German, according to the original manuscripts. Some texts have copyright-free translations into English and other languages. A biographical sketch and a commented list of all works are available for a quick consultation. Through the manuscript page you can experience the concreteness of Kafka's writing in a chapter of The Trial. With the general bibliography (under construction) you enter the commentary part of the site; new articles and essays are announced in the home page, and collected in a dedicated part of the site. Newly published books about Kafka are presented in a separate section. Our huge archive includes all past articles and recommended books, and all essays grouped according to the work they refer to. You can contact the team of the Kafka Project through the contact page, or simply drop a line in the guestbook; a search engine helps you to retrive a word or a quote from Kafka's work or from the entire site. And last but not least, do not miss the help page if you are only looking for a hint in order to get that Kafka paper written!

• Roots of Kafka's Trial, a short essay by Gustavo Artiles
• An interesting article appeared in the New Yorker magazine's online Book Bench about Mark Harman's translation of Der Verschollene (Schocken 2008) and an exhibit at MOMA 
• An essay about Ein Hungerkünstler by Joan M. Wolk: «Franz Kafka's Ein Hungerkünstler: Metaphor of Conflict»
• An essay in Italian by Giorgio Fontana: «Odradek e il mondo delle fiabe» (in pdf-format)
• A new translation into English of Der Verschollene (a.k.a. America). Thanks to Jeff Nowak for the wonderful effort!
• An English translation of «Josephine the Songstress, or The Mouse Folk» by Phillip Lundberg, from his recently published volume «Essential Kafka»;
• The International Trial Bibliography is initiated. Give your contribution to its completing!
• An essay by Jacqueline Sudaka-Bénazéraf: «Au miroir du rêve. Récits et fragments de Franz Kafka» (in pdf-format) ;
• An essay by Jacqueline Sudaka-Bénazéraf: «Franz Kafka: le dessin des "Acrobates" - L'aporie de la création» (in pdf-format);
• Another essay by Jacqueline Sudaka-Bénazéraf: «De la main qui dessine à la main qui écrit: la caricature véhicule du burlesque dans quelques récits de Franz Kafka» (in pdf-format);
• A press release about the Franz Kafka Museum, a new cultural destination in Prague. Read here a press release!;
• An essay by Matteo Colombi (University of Bologna, Italy) about the Trial: «La giustizia con le ali ai piedi. Analisi di congiura e processo in Der Prozess di Franz Kafka» (in Italian) ;
• An essay by Rita Peris: «The Unknowable: Meditations on the Law»;
• A short article by Michael Segedy about In the Penal Colony: «Paradigm Shift in Kafka's In the Penal Colony» ;
• Carlos Atanes' interesting short movie from The Metamorphosis is now freely avalaible on YouTube;
• A new translation into Italian of «In the Penal Colony» («Nella colonia penale»);
• An essay in Swedish by Hans-Evert Rénerius about Franz Kafka and the face of God in the Jewish tradition;

• and a lot more in our huge archive!

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One-way Street and Other Writings

Walter Benjamin

Translated by J.A. Underwood

With an Introduction by Amit Chaudhuri

£10.99 

ISBN: 9780141189475

“There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time” George Steiner

 “One of the most celebrated intellectuals of the twentieth century” Guardian

Walter Benjamin – philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist – was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin’s major works, including ‘One-way Street’, a series of aphoristic observations prompted by urban life in 1920s Europe; ‘Unpacking My Library’, a delightful meditation on book-collecting; the confessional ‘Hashish in Marseille’; and ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, his seminal essay on how technology changes the way we appreciate art. Also including writings on subjects ranging from Proust to Kafka, violence to surrealism, this is the essential volume on one of the most prescient critical voices of the modern age.

Contents:

‘On the Critique of Violence’, ‘The Task of the Translator’, ‘One-way Street’, ‘Hashish in Marseille’, ‘Picturing Proust’, ‘Surrealism’, ‘Unpacking my Library’, ‘Brief History of Photography’, ‘Franz Kafka’ and ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’.

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