Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His major novels include The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika. The award-winning translator Michael Hofmann has also translated works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Gert Hofmann, Franz Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist, and Joseph Roth for New Directions. Horace Gregory was born and grew up in Milwaukee. He was a poet, critic, essayist, translator and biographer, who taught at Sarah Lawrence College for 26 years. He was a member of the National Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters and received the Bollingen Prize for poetry in 1965.
"Anything by Kafka is worth reading again, especially in the hands
of such a gifted translator as Hofmann."
*The New York Times Book Review*
"[Hofmann's] new translation is more successful in conveying ... a
sense of Kafka's unfinished work."
*Veronika Tuckerova - Harvard Book Review*
"One can hardly fail to welcome Michael Hofmann's more accurate
English text."
*Washington Post Book World*
"Hofmann's translation is invaluable....It achieves what
translations are supposedly unable to do: it is at once 'loyal' and
'beautiful.'"
*John Zilcosky - New Republic*
"Hofmann's slick, sleek translation does a wonderful job of keeping
those competing forces in balance."
*The San Francisco Chronicle*
"Unpredictable and funny, as close to a Buster Keaton comedy as you
can get."
*Jim Krusoe - Los Angeles Times Book Review*
"A stirring, singular work, now restored to its original
beauty."
*John Ashbery*
"Michael Hofmann’s magnificent new translation restores its
rightful place as one of Kafka’s most delightful and most memorable
works."
*Charles Simic*
"Of all the recent re-translations of Kafka into English, this
volume is the most noteworthy. It achieves what translations are
supposedly unable to do; it is at once ‘loyal’ and
‘beautiful’—beautifully disorienting, beautifully confusing,
beautifully cruel."
*John Zilcosky - The New Republic*
"Hofmann’s ability to overcome the obstacles presented by this
particular work from Kafka marks this as the best translation."
*Kirkus Reviews*
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