Kafka Unleashed (paperback)

Kafka Unleashed may be viewed as an expanded third edition of Essential Kafka as it contains fourteen stories and four novel excerpts rather than nine and three; however, it is a great deal more than that (just an expansion in content). There is also a refinement in focus in that the translator's role as interpreter has likewise undergone a certain metamorphosis. Thus, Kafka's hidden romantic side that has its roots in Goethe and Plato is brought into focus, as is Kafka's esoteric Christianity that becomes apparent, particularly in the chapter "Josef K.!" which contains the great legend/parable: Before the Law. Translations of Walter Sokel's Franz Kafka-Tragik und Ironie, as well as three meditations by Rudolf Steiner and numerous footnotes to Plato, these combine to illuminate Kafka's genius like no other Kafka book.

Additional insights regarding Lundberg's translations may be gleaned from his website:

https://sites.google.com/view/phillip-lundberg/home?authuser=0

If you are serious in your interest in Franz Kafka, here is the translation that delivers, the result of decades of study of, as Socrates says: "the most important things."