Description of a Struggle (short story collection)

Beschreibung eines Kampfes

Author	Franz Kafka
Language	German
Genre	short stories
Publisher	Editor Max Brod
Publication date	1936 (1936)

Description of a Struggle

First edition
Author	Franz Kafka
Translator	Tania and James Stern
Language	English
Genre	short stories
Publisher	Schocken Books
Publication date	1958 (1958)
Publication place	United States

Description of a Struggle is a collection of short stories and story fragments by Franz Kafka.^[1] First published in 1936 after Kafka's death by Max Brod, it was translated by Tania and James Stern and published in 1958 by Schocken Books.

Contents

• Description of a Struggle
• Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor
• The Warden of the Tomb
• The Refusal
• Short pieces:
  • Poseidon
  • The Vulture
  • The Departure
  • Give It Up!
  • At Night
  • The Helmsman
  • The Top
  • The Test
  • Advocates
  • Home-Coming
  • Fellowship
  • Fragments of A Report to an Academy
  • Fragment of The Great Wall of China
  • The Conscription of Troops
  • Fragment of The Hunter Gracchus

Printings

Kafka, Franz. Description of a Struggle. New York: Schocken Books, 1958.

See also

• Franz Kafka

References

1. Gray, Richard (September 2000). A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia. United States: Greenwood. pp. 31–35. ISBN 978-0313303753.