Great Stories by Kafka and Rilke/Meistererzählungen von Kafka und Rilke: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language German)

At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Prague hosted a cosmopolitan culture whose literary scene abounded in experimental writers. Two of the city’s natives are featured in this dual-language volume: Franz Kafka, whose fiction is synonymous with the anguish of modern life; and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose stories unfold in the same transcendent lyricism as his verse.<BR>Twelve of Kafka’s stories from the compilation <I>Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor) </I>appear here, along with two tales from <I>Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist)</I>. Rilke's stories include "Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke" (The Ballad of Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke), "Die Turnstunde" (The Gym Class), and <I>Geschichten vom lieben Gott (Stories About the Good Lord)</I>. <BR>Stanley Appelbaum has provided an introduction and informative notes to these stories, along with excellent new English translations on the pages facing the original German.