Parables and Paradoxes

1961 book by Franz Kafka

Parables and Paradoxes

First edition

Author| Franz Kafka
Original title| 'Parabeln und Paradoxe'
Translator| Clement Greenberg, Ernst Kaiser & Eithne Wilkins, Willa & Edwin Muir, Tania & James Stern
Cover artist| Paul Bacon (photo by Jan Lukas)
Language| English, German
Genre| Parables, Fables, Paradoxes
Publisher| Schocken Books

Publication date

| 1961
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages| 190
ISBN| 0-8052-0422-9
OCLC| 10988104

Parables and Paradoxes (Parabeln und Paradoxe) is a bilingual edition of selected writings by Franz Kafka edited by Nahum N. Glatzer (Schocken Books, 1961). In this volume of collected pieces, Kafka re-examines and rewrites some basic mythical tales of the Israelites, Ancient Greeks, Far East, and the Western World, as well as creations of his own imagination.

The material in the book is drawn from Kafka's notebooks, diaries, letters, short fictional works and the novel The Trial. An earlier version of the collection appeared under the title Parables, and included a smaller selection of works.

## Contents

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* On Parables

* An Imperial Message
* Pekin and the Emperor
* The News of the Building of the Wall: a Fragment
* The Great wall and the Tower of Babel

* Paradise
* The Tower of Babel
* The Pit of Babel
* The City Coat of Arms
* Abraham
* Mount Sinai
* The Building of the Temple
* The Animal in the Synagogue
* Before the Law
* The Watchman
* The Coming of the Messiah

III

* Prometheus
* Poseidon
* The Silence of the Sirens
* The Sirens
* Leopards in the Temple
* Alexander the Great
* Diogenes
* The New Attorney

* The Building of a City
* The Imperial Colonel
* The Emperor
* In the Caravanary
* The Cell
* The Invention of the Devil
* The Savages
* The Hunter Gracchus \+ Fragment
* The Vulture
* The Green Dragon
* The Tiger
* The Problem of Our Laws
* The Refusal
* Couriers
* A Chinese Puzzle
* The Truth about Sancho Panza
* The Test
* Robinson Crusoe
* The Spring
* The Hunger Strike
* My Destination

## Translations

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Parables and Paradoxes brings together short texts from the wide variety of Kafka's works. Since different texts were handled by different translators this volume allows readers to compare the various ways Kafka's works have been rendered into English. The translators included are:

* Clement Greenberg
* Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins
* Willa and Edwin Muir
* Tania and James Stern

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Franz Kafka (works)

Novels|

* The Trial
* The Castle
* Amerika

Short stories|

| 1902–1912|

* "Shamefaced Lanky and Impure in Heart"
* "Description of a Struggle"
* "Wedding Preparations in the Country"
* "The Judgment"
* "The Stoker"
* The Metamorphosis
* "The Aeroplanes at Brescia"

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1914–1917|

* "In the Penal Colony"
* "The Village Schoolmaster"
* "Before the Law"
* "Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor"
* "A Country Doctor"
* "The Hunter Gracchus"
* "The Great Wall of China"
* "A Message from the Emperor"
* "A Report to an Academy"
* "A Dream"
* "Up in the Gallery"
* "A Fratricide"
* "The Next Village"
* "A Visit to a Mine"
* "Jackals and Arabs"
* "The Bridge"
* "The Bucket Rider"
* "The New Advocate"
* "An Old Manuscript"
* "The Knock at the Manor Gate"
* "Eleven Sons"
* "My Neighbor"
* "A Crossbreed"
* "The Cares of a Family Man"

1917–1923|

* "The Refusal"
* "A Hunger Artist"
* "Investigations of a Dog"
* "A Little Woman"
* "The Burrow"
* "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk"
* "A Common Confusion"
* "The Truth about Sancho Panza"
* "The Silence of the Sirens"
* "Prometheus"
* "The City Coat of Arms"
* "Poseidon"
* "Fellowship"
* "At Night"
* "The Problem of Our Laws"
* "The Conscription of Troops"
* "The Test"
* "The Vulture"
* "The Helmsman"
* "The Top"
* "A Little Fable"
* "Homecoming"
* "First Sorrow"
* "The Departure"
* "Advocates"
* "The Married Couple"
* "Give It Up!"
* "On Parables"

Short story
collections|

* Contemplation
* A Country Doctor
* A Hunger Artist
* The Great Wall of China
* The Complete Stories
* The Sons
* The Penal Colony
* Parables and Paradoxes
* Dearest Father
* Description of a Struggle

Diaries and
notebooks|

* The Diaries 1910–1923
* The Blue Octavo Notebooks
* The Zürau Aphorisms

Letters
and essays|

* Letter to His Father
* Letters to Felice
* Letters to Ottla
* Letters to Milena
* Letters to Family, Friends, and Editors
* The Office Writings

Plays|

* The Warden of the Tomb

Related|

* Ottla Kafka (sister)
* Franz Kafka and Judaism
* Richard and Samuel
* Franz Kafka Museum
* Franz Kafka Society
* Franz Kafka Prize
* Kafka Project
* Head of Franz Kafka statue
* Statue of Franz Kafka
* Kafka's Dick (1986 play)
* The Loves of Kafka (1988 film)
* Kafka (1991 film)
* Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1993 film)

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