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  • The Sufferings of Young Werther

    A New Translation

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    Translated by Stanley Corngold ...
    "A highly readable, sensitive, and lively Werther. Corngold is both faithful to the German and true to the demands of a modern English text" —Jeremy Adler, Times Literary SupplementA masterpiece of European imagination, The Sufferings of Young Werther is the classic Sturm und Drang tale of youthful angst and tragedy. The acclaimed translator Stanley Corngold brings new passion and precision to ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walter Kaufmann

    Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic: An Intellectual Life

    by Stanley Corngold ...
    The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual lifeWalter Kaufmann (1921–1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen, emigrating alone to the United States. He was astonishingly prolific until his untimely death at age fifty-nine, writing some dozen major books, all marked ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Franz Kafka

    The Office Writings

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Eric Patton, Ruth Hein ...
    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 ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Kafka for the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Stanley Corngold, Ruth Gross ...
    Franz Kafka's literary career began in the first decade of the twentieth century and produced some of the most fascinating and influential works in all of modern European literature. Now, a hundred years later, the concerns of a new century call for a look at the challenges facing Kafka scholarship in the decades ahead: What more can we hope to learn about the context in which Kafka wrote? How ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Metamorphosis

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Stanley Corngold ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley CorngoldFeaturing essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Faith of a Heretic

    Updated Edition

    by Walter A. Kaufmann ...
    Originally published in 1959, The Faith of a Heretic is the most personal statement of the beliefs of Nietzsche biographer and translator Walter Kaufmann. A first-rate philosopher in his own right, Kaufmann here provides the fullest account of his views on religion. Although he considered himself a heretic, he was not immune to the wellsprings and impulses from which religion originates, declaring ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Kafka after Kafka

    Dialogical Engagement with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernism

    by Iris Bruce, Sander Sander Gilman, Stanley Corngold, Tali Latowicki, Vivian Liska, Mark H. Gelber, Alana Sobelman, Amir Engel, Caroline Jessen0, Ido Lewit1, Michael G. Levine2 ...
    The topic of "Kafka after Kafka" is a fascinating one: the engagement of artists, philosophers, and critics in dialogical exchange with Kafka's works. The present collection of new essays highlights the engagement of lesser knownartists and commentators with Kafka, and represents those who are well known, such as Arendt, Blanchot, Nabokov, and Coetzee, from new perspectives. The eleven essays ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Expeditions to Kafka

    Selected Essays

    by Professor or Dr. Stanley Corngold ...
    In this new volume of Kafka studies, which is addressed to both beginning readers of Kafka as well as Kafka scholars, Stanley Corngold discusses Kafka's work in a variety of novel perspectives, including Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther; Nietzsche's conception of aphoristic form; bureaucratic organization; accident and risk; the logic of possession and inheritance; and myth, among others ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • The Mind in Exile

    Thomas Mann in Princeton

    by Stanley Corngold ...
    A unique look at Thomas Mann’s intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United StatesIn September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize–winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany for the United States. Heralded as “the greatest living man of letters,” Mann settled in Princeton, New Jersey, where, for nearly three years, he ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Weimar in Princeton

    Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle

    by Professor or Dr. Stanley Corngold ...
    Series series New Directions in German Studies
    Thomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938, in exile from Nazi Germany, and feted in his new country as “the greatest living man of letters.” This beautiful new book from literary critic Stanley Corngold tells the little known story of Mann's early years in America and his encounters with a group of highly gifted émigrés in Princeton, which came to be called the Kahler Circle, with Mann at its ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Lambent Traces

    Franz Kafka

    by Stanley Corngold ...
    On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home, for artistic fulfillment can be understood as a figure for Kafka's own search to reproduce the ecstasy of a single ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Franz Kafka

    The Necessity of Form

    by Stanley Corngold ...
    In Stanley Corngold's view, the themes and strategies of Kafka's fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his growing sense of its arbitrary character. Analyzing Kafka's work in light of "the necessity of form," which is also a merely formal necessity, Corngold uncovers the fundamental paradox of Kafka's art and life. The first section of the book shows how Kafka's ... Read more

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