Franz Kafka (eBook)

The Office Writings

Franz Kafka (Autor)

Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg, Benno Wagner (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691222608 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2020
• Übersetzer: Eric Patton, Ruth Hein
• Zusatzinfo: 28 halftones. 9 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht
• Schlagworte: Accidental death and dismemberment insurance • Accident Prevention Commission • accountant • Addendum • Administrative Court • alcohol abuse issue • Amerika (Kafka) • Analogy • Annual report • attempt • Bauer, Felice • Before the Law • behalf • Bennett, Alan • biopolitical ideology • Board of Directors • Brno Convention (1911) • Brown v. Board of Education • bureaucrat • Calculation • Career • Carl Lindstroem AG • chauffeur • civil service • Commercial code (law) • Consideration • Construction • Criticism • Czech Republic • damages coverage system • Decree • Determination • Electrotechnical Society (Vienna) • Elevator operator • emergency management • Employment • Engel-Dollfus • Ewald, François • Expert report • Explanation • Felice Bauer • Flat rate • Flat rate (finance) • Fleischmann, Siegmund • Frankfurter, Felix • Franze, Josef • Franz Kafka • German Emperor • Gesellschaft (society) • Gesetz (law) • Greene, Graham • Hamprecht, Wenzel • Haubner, Jacob • health insurance • Herzl, Theodor • Hurricane Katrina • Illustration • industrial production • Inspection • inspectorate • Instance (computer science) • Institution • insurance • insurance fraud • insurance law • insurance policy • In the Penal Colony • Iron Ring • Jurisdiction • Kafka Handbuch • Kahn, Gustav • Klein, Franz • Koerber, Ernest von • language disputes • Law clerk • Lecture • Lefort, Claude • Legislation • Literature • Lyotard, Jean-François • Margulies, Professor • Marx, Karl • Migerka, Franz • Military Service • Momus • Nadler, Franz • narrative • national security • Negotiation • neurosis • obstacle • Occupational Safety and Health • Odstričil, Bedřich • Otis Elevator Company • Pamphlet • pasture • Payment • Payroll • Pension • percentage • Personal protective equipment • Pessoa, Fernando • Physician • Pierschel, Alfred • Plato • preface • Premium-rate telephone number • Příbram, Otto • Profession • Prosecutor • Provision (accounting) • psychiatric hospital • Publication • Püschel, Franz • quarry • Reclassification • Red Cross • Redlich, Joseph • Regulation • Requirement • result • Richter, Franz • Rule of Law • safety goggles • salary • Schückel, Adam • shaving • Skoda works (Pilsen) • small farm • Social Insurance • Statistic • Statute • Supervisor • Swift, Jonathan • textile industry • The Other Hand • Trade association • Trade secret • Tuberculosis • Valenta, Jindřich • Veteran • Vogl, Joseph • war economy • war time risk classification • Wealth • weaving • Weber, Max • Werner Sombart • Willert, Anton • workplace • World War I • Writing • year • Zionism
• ISBN-13: 9780691222608 / 9780691222608