{"product_id":"he-shorter-writings-of-franz-kafka-9780374538941","title":"He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new selection of Franz Kafka's shorter fiction and nonfiction work, selected and with a preface by \u003ci\u003eBook of Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e author Joshua Cohen.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who's standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.\" --Joshua Cohen, from his foreword to \u003ci\u003eHe: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, the minor works that are actually major. Joshua Cohen has produced a frame that refuses distinctions between what is a story, a letter, a workplace memo, and a diary entry, also including popular favorites like \u003ci\u003eThe Bucket Rider\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Penal Colony\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Burrow\u003c\/i\u003e. Here we see Kafka's preoccupations in writing about animals, messiah variations, food, and exercise, each in his signature style. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCohen's selection emphasizes the stately structure of utterly coherent logic within an utterly incoherent and illogical world, showing how Kafka harnessed the humblest grammar to metamorphic power, until the predominant effect ceases to be the presence of an unreliable narrator but the absence of the universe's only reliable narrator--God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374538941\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320","brand":"Franz Kafka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41574107447477,"sku":"9780374538941","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6b8e3b80-0680-4bac-9ab9-151fcd59f023.jpg?v=1643689503","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/he-shorter-writings-of-franz-kafka-9780374538941","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}