Mark Harman is Professor Emeritus of German and English at Elizabethtown College. His award-winning translations include Franz Kafka’s Amerika: The Missing Person and The Castle, as well as Herman Hesse’s Soul of the Age: Selected Letters and Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet.
Mark Harman is the finest living Kafka translator, and this new volume is a trove of riches. The introduction is enlightening, the notes are invaluable, and of course the prose is a constant delight. No one else brings Kafka to life so vividly and so elegantly. -- John Banville, Booker Prize–winning author of <i>The Sea</i> This is more than simply a fresh version of Kafka’s most famous stories. With a brilliant introduction and useful notes, it’s a feast for all serious readers of modern literature. Mark Harman adds immensely to our understanding and appreciation of Kafka as he pries open and recreates the major tales in ways not seen since Edwin and Willa Muir’s first translations. A stunning book. -- Jay Parini, author of <i>Borges and Me</i>