Screen LibraryFranz Kafka：the office writings
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Selections. |
| Carrier Form: | xx, 404 p.: ill. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780691126807 (cloth : hc : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | I521 |
| CLC: |
I521.065 I521.064 I521.074 |
| Call Number: | I521.074/K118 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Preface -- Abbreviations for Kafka citations -- Kafka and the ministry of writing / Stanley Corngold -- Kafka's office writings: historical background and institutional setting / Benno Wagner -- Documents -- 1: Speech on the occasion of the inauguration of the institutes's new director (1909) -- Commentary -- 2: Scope of compulsory insurance for the building trades (1908) -- Commentary -- 3: Fixed-rate insurance premiums for small farms using machinery (1909) -- Commentary -- 4: Inclusion of private automobile "firms" in the compulsory insurance program (1909) -- Commentary -- 5: Appeal agai From the Publisher: 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 |