Franz Kafka: The Office Writings

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Princeton University Press, 2009 - 404 pàgines

Franz Kafka: The Office Writings brings together, for the first time in English, Kafka's most interesting professional writings, composed during his years as a high-ranking lawyer with the largest Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in the Czech Lands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is commonly recognized as the greatest German prose writer of the twentieth century. It is less well known that he had an established legal career. Kafka's briefs reveal him to be a canny bureaucrat, sharp litigator, and innovative thinker on the social, political, and legal issues of his time. His official preoccupations inspired many of the themes and strategies of the novels and stories he wrote at night.

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.

 

Continguts

Speech on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the Institutes New Director 1909
51
The Scope of Compulsory Insurance for the Building Trades 1908
54
FixedRate Insurance Premiums for Small Farms Using Machinery 1909
74
Inclusion of Private Automobile Firms in the Compulsory Insurance Program 1909
80
Appeal against Risk Classification of Christian Geipel Sohn Mechanical Weaving Mill in Asch 1910
90
Measures for Preventing Accidents from WoodPlaning Machines 1910
109
On the Examination of Firms by Trade Inspectors 1911
120
Workmens Insurance and Employers Two Articles in the TetschenBodenbacher Zeitung 1911
145
Second International Congress on Accident Prevention and First Aid in Vienna 1913
249
Accident Prevention in Quarries 1914
273
Jubilee Report TwentyFive Years of the Workmens Accident Insurance Institute 1914
301
Risk Classification and Accident Prevention in Wartime 1915
322
A Public Psychiatric Hospital for GermanBohemia 1916
336
Help Disabled Veterans An Urgent Appeal to the Public 19161917
346
From Kafka to Kafkaesque
355
Chronology
373

Petition of the Toy Producers Association in Katharinaberg Erzgebirge 1912
170
Risk Classification Appeal by Norbert Hochsieder Boarding House Owner in Marienbad 1912
194
Letters to the Workmens Accident Insurance Institute in Prague 191215
213
Criminal Charge against Josef Renelt for the Illegal Withholding of Insurance Fees 1913
225
Notes
379
About the Editors
393
Index
395
Copyright

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Sobre l'autor (2009)

Franz Kafka -- July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924 Franz Kafka was born to middle-class Jewish parents in Prague, Czechoslovakia on July 3, 1883. He received a law degree at the University of Prague. After performing an obligatory year of unpaid service as law clerk for the civil and criminal courts, he obtained a position in the workman's compensation division of the Austrian government. Always neurotic, insecure, and filled with a sense of inadequacy, his writing is a search for personal fulfillment and understanding. He wrote very slowly and deliberately, publishing very little in his lifetime. At his death he asked a close friend to burn his remaining manuscripts, but the friend refused the request. Instead the friend arranged for publication Kafka's longer stories, which have since brought him worldwide fame and have influenced many contemporary writers. His works include The Metamorphosis, The Castle, The Trial, and Amerika. Kafka was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in August 1917. As his disease progressed, his throat became affected by the TB and he could not eat regularly because it was painful. He died from starvation in a sanatorium in Kierling, near Vienna, after admitting himself for treatment there on April 10, 1924. He died on June 3 at the age of 40.

Informació bibliogràfica

TítolFranz Kafka: The Office Writings
AutorFranz Kafka
EditorsStanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg, Benno Wagner
Edicióil·lustrada
EditorPrinceton University Press, 2009
ISBN0691126801, 9780691126807
Nre. de pàgines404 pàgines
  
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