Franz Kafka

WM had conceived and begun work on this novel by 1926, planning to set it in Montrose, her childhood town. She did not start working on it in earnest, however, until 1930...

Her next task was the struggle to secure publication for manuscripts left in her keeping and that of her husband by Walter Benjamin . She also needed work, and became first a literary reviewer and...

There is a strong flavour of Kafka about this comic parable both of a family and of a state. The royal family of Evarchia (somewhere in contemporary Middle or Eastern Europe) has an authoritarian father...

Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues...

Although certainly located in the Brechtian tradition of epic theatre, with its political resonances and self-referentiality, it is likewise identifiable as theatre of the absurd (as AS points out), with the apparent influences of...

Epigraphs to particular poems quote Chaucer , Swift , Elizabeth Barrett , Elizabeth Bishop , Geoffrey Bateson , and (most frequently) Elizabeth Hardwick . The title-poem (called by a reviewer Kafka esque) exemplifies...

Desmond MacCarthy had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939...

WM and Edwin Muir published the first English translation of Franz Kafka 's unfinished novelThe Castle (Die Schloss), six years after Kafka's death.

WM and her husband published their third Kafka translation: the unfinished novel The Trial (originally Der Prozess). Kafka had stopped work on it in 1916, but its first publication in German was not until...

Willa and Edwin Muir published their translation of Kafka 's third unfinished novel, America.

A translation by both WM and Edwin Muir of Kafka 's ground-breaking, modernist short storyThe Metamorphosis, written in 1912, was reprinted in a volume entitled Metamorphosis and Other Stories.

WM and her husband are credited with having introduced the English-reading public to Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who wrote in German. In addition to translating his three unfinished novels and a number of his short stories...

The Great Wall of China and Other Pieces, the next Kafka translation by the Muirs, appeared in 1933.By the time they began this work they had increased their fees (after a considerable wrangle with...

WM and Edwin Muir finished their translation of the Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka in 1952. Then in 1958, the year before Edwin 's death, they finished another Kafka translation: Parables and Paradoxes.This...

The Muirs' next two Kafka translations, A Country Doctor; Ein Landarzt (first translated by Vera Leslie in 1945) and The Bucket Rider, appeared in 1962 and 1965 respectively.Description of...