The Lost Writings
Kafka, Franz / Stach, Reiner / Hofmann, Michael
Unearthed by the master Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, this collection comes as a prize and a joy. Some stories are several pages long, some run about a page, a handful are only a few lines long. Lost to English-language readers until now, all are marvels: even the most fragmentary texts are revelations. Has any writer given so many pleasures and mysteries, and both so unstintingly.