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Stanley Corngold
A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States.
In September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize winning…
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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…
Complex Pleasure deals with questions of literary feeling in eight major German writers: Lessing, Kant, Hslderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin.
Much recent critical theory has dismissed or failed to take seriously the question of the self. French theorists-such as Derrida, Barthes, Benveniste, Foucault, Lacan, and Levi-Strauss-have in various ways proclaimed…
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The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual life Walter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who fled…
A unique look at Thomas Mann’s intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States.
In September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize -…
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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…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stanley Corngold’s translation is a triumph. This is a glorious achievement, a Werther for the ages. -Christopher Prendergast
Offers a reconsideration of modern forms of paternity and friendship as they emerge in works by writers and philosophers from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Exploring various models of…
Stanley Corngold,Irene Giersing
Borrowed Lives is a novel. It is an enactment of issues of literary philosophy and criticism, including the question of whether there can be originality, coherence, and authenticity in life…
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…
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Stanley Corngold,Benno Wagner
The work of two of the leading scholars of the single most influential writer of literary modernity, Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine constitutes a breathtakingly original advance in…
Leading international Kafka scholars face the challenges Kafka poses in the new millennium.
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…
Franz Kafka
Writings by and about Kafka and textual notes accompany this translation of his early-twentieth-century work.
Based on translations by leading Kafka scholar, this work includes twenty-nine stories, which accompanies annotations. The extracts from his letters, diaries and conversations offer a glimpse of Kafka’s creative process…
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Professor or Dr. Stanley Corngold (Princeton University, USA)
An evocative account of German aemigraes in America in the wake of Nazism, centered around Thomas Mann’s early exile in Princeton and his encounters with a brilliant group of intellectuals…
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 Supplement
Corngold’s new translation is of the very highest quality, punctiliously faithful to Goethe’s German and sensitive to gradations of style in this extraordinary, trail-blazing first novel. -J. M. Coetzee, New…
In this set of essays the contributors explore the notion of world literature and world thoughts by examining past perspectives and mapping identities in terms of literature, nationalism and colonialism.
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…
