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Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
- ISBN-10:
- 0691167990
- ISBN-13:
- 9780691167992
- Pub. Date:
- 09/08/2015
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10:
- 0691167990
- ISBN-13:
- 9780691167992
- Pub. Date:
- 09/08/2015
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
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Overview
These documents include articles on workmen's compensation and workplace safety; appeals for the founding of a psychiatric hospital for shell-shocked veterans; and letters arguing relentlessly for a salary adequate to his merit. In adjudicating disputes, promoting legislative programs, and investigating workplace sites, Kafka's writings teem with details about the bureaucracy and technology of his day, such as spa elevators in Marienbad, the challenge of the automobile, and the perils of excavating in quarries while drunk. Beautifully translated, with valuable commentary by two of the world's leading Kafka scholars and one of America's most eminent civil rights lawyers, the documents cast rich light on the man and the writer and offer new insights to lovers of Kafka's novels and stories.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780691167992 |
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Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
Publication date: | 09/08/2015 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 440 |
Product dimensions: | 9.00(w) x 5.90(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Date of Birth:
July 3, 1883Date of Death:
June 3, 1924Place of Birth:
Prague, Austria-HungaryPlace of Death:
Vienna, AustriaEducation:
German elementary and secondary schools. Graduated from German Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague.Table of Contents
Preface ixAbbreviations for Kafka Citations xixKafka and the Ministry of Writing by Stanley Corngold 1Kafka's Offi ce Writings: Historical Background and Institutional Setting by Benno Wagner 19
DOCUMENTSChapter 1: Speech on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the Institute's New Director (1909) 51CommentaryChapter 2: The Scope of Compulsory Insurance for the Building Trades (1908) 54CommentaryChapter 3: Fixed- Rate Insurance Premiums for Small Farms Using Machinery (1909) 74CommentaryChapter 4: Inclusion of Private Automobile "Firms" in the Compulsory Insurance Program (1909) 80CommentaryChapter 5: Appeal against Risk Classifi cation of Christian Geipel & Sohn, Mechanical Weaving Mill in Asch (1910) 90CommentaryChapter 6: Mea sures for Preventing Accidents from Wood- Planing Machines (1910) 109CommentaryChapter 7: On the Examination of Firms by Trade Inspectors (1911) 120CommentaryChapter 8: Workmen's Insurance and Employers: Two Articles in the Tetschen- Bodenbacher Zeitung (1911) 145CommentaryChapter 9: Petition of the Toy Producers’ Association in Katharinaberg, Erzgebirge (1912) 170CommentaryChapter 10: Risk Classifi cation Appeal by Norbert Hochsieder, Boarding House Own er in Marienbad (1912) 194CommentaryChapter 11: Letters to the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in Prague (1912-15) 213CommentaryChapter 12: Criminal Charge against Josef Renelt for the Illegal Withholding of Insurance Fees (1913) 225CommentaryChapter 13: Second International Congress on Accident Prevention and First Aid in Vienna (1913) 249CommentaryChapter 14: Accident Prevention in Quarries (1914) 273CommentaryChapter 15: Jubilee Report: Twenty- Five Years of the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute (1914) 301CommentaryChapter 16: Risk Classifi cation and Accident Prevention in War time (1915) 322CommentaryChapter 17: A Public Psychiatric Hospital for German- Bohemia (1916) 336CommentaryChapter 18: "Help Disabled Veterans! An Urgent Appeal to the Public" (1916/1917) 346Commentary
Wraparound:From Kafka to Kafkaesque 355by Jack Greenberg Chronology 373Notes 379About the Editors 393Index 395
What People are Saying About This
This volume is an important addition to our understanding and appreciation of Kafka and his work.
Harold T. Shapiro, president emeritus, Princeton University
This volume is an important addition to our understanding and appreciation of Kafka and his work. --Harold T. Shapiro, president emeritus, Princeton University
This carefully edited book is one of the best things to have happened to Kafka scholarship in decades. It debunks the naïve but widely accepted myth of Kafka the poet, whose work in real life had nothing to do with his literary oeuvre. Just as importantly, the book is a valuable research tool for anyone who studies the impact of modern technology on the social, legal, and political spheres in Western Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. --Wolf Kittler, University of California, Santa Barbara
The book adds significantly to a new image of Kafka, one that goes beyond the isolated prophet of existential despair. It reestablishes him as an important commentator on a wide range of topics, such as social institutions, political changes, and technological innovations in high industrial capitalism. It is a major contribution to cultural studies approaches to Kafka, working out the intriguing ways in which a leading modernist writer represents the spirit of his time for our own. --Rolf J. Goebel, University of Alabama, Huntsville
Kafka's office writings, appearing here together in English for the first time, constitute a fascinating discovery. Corngold and Wagner treat readers to a surprising, new Kafka: a high-ranking, confident bureaucrat, whose legal and literary labors were closely intertwined. --John Zilcosky, University of Toronto
This lucid and convincing book is a major contribution to the scholarship on Kafka, and on the relationship between literary creativity and professional life. --Russell Berman, Stanford University
This lucid and convincing book is a major contribution to the scholarship on Kafka, and on the relationship between literary creativity and professional life.
Russell Berman, Stanford University
This carefully edited book is one of the best things to have happened to Kafka scholarship in decades. It debunks the naïve but widely accepted myth of Kafka the poet, whose work in real life had nothing to do with his literary oeuvre. Just as importantly, the book is a valuable research tool for anyone who studies the impact of modern technology on the social, legal, and political spheres in Western Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Wolf Kittler, University of California, Santa Barbara
The book adds significantly to a new image of Kafka, one that goes beyond the isolated prophet of existential despair. It reestablishes him as an important commentator on a wide range of topics, such as social institutions, political changes, and technological innovations in high industrial capitalism. It is a major contribution to cultural studies approaches to Kafka, working out the intriguing ways in which a leading modernist writer represents the spirit of his time for our own.
Rolf J. Goebel, University of Alabama, Huntsville
"This volume is an important addition to our understanding and appreciation of Kafka and his work."—Harold T. Shapiro, president emeritus, Princeton University"This carefully edited book is one of the best things to have happened to Kafka scholarship in decades. It debunks the naïve but widely accepted myth of Kafka the poet, whose work in real life had nothing to do with his literary oeuvre. Just as importantly, the book is a valuable research tool for anyone who studies the impact of modern technology on the social, legal, and political spheres in Western Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century."—Wolf Kittler, University of California, Santa Barbara"The book adds significantly to a new image of Kafka, one that goes beyond the isolated prophet of existential despair. It reestablishes him as an important commentator on a wide range of topics, such as social institutions, political changes, and technological innovations in high industrial capitalism. It is a major contribution to cultural studies approaches to Kafka, working out the intriguing ways in which a leading modernist writer represents the spirit of his time for our own."—Rolf J. Goebel, University of Alabama, Huntsville"Kafka's office writings, appearing here together in English for the first time, constitute a fascinating discovery. Corngold and Wagner treat readers to a surprising, new Kafka: a high-ranking, confident bureaucrat, whose legal and literary labors were closely intertwined."—John Zilcosky, University of Toronto"This lucid and convincing book is a major contribution to the scholarship on Kafka, and on the relationship between literary creativity and professional life."—Russell Berman, Stanford University
Kafka's office writings, appearing here together in English for the first time, constitute a fascinating discovery. Corngold and Wagner treat readers to a surprising, new Kafka: a high-ranking, confident bureaucrat, whose legal and literary labors were closely intertwined.
John Zilcosky, University of Toronto