Franz Kafka: The Office Writings

Franz Kafka: The Office Writings is a collection of essays, letters and articles composed by Franz Kafka during his years as a high-ranking lawyer with the largest Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in the Czech lands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The collection was edited by Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg, and Benno Wagner, and translated by Eric Patton and Ruth Hein. The book includes introductory essays by Corngold and Wagner, as well as commentary following each of Kafka's texts, and an epilogue by Greenberg.

The Scope of Compulsory Insurance for the Building trades (1908)
Speech on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the Institute's New Director (1909)
Fixed-Rate Insurance Premiums for Small Farms Using Machinery (1909)
Inclusion of Private Automobile "Firms" in the Compulsory Insurance Program (1909)
Appeal against Risk Classification of Christian Geipel & Sohn, Mechanical Weaving Mill in Asch (1910)
Measures for Preventing Accidents from Wood-Planing Machines (1910)
On the Examination of Firms by Trade Inspectors (1911)
Workmen's Insurance and Employers: Two Articles in the Tetschen Bodenbacher Zeitung (1911)
Petition of the Toy Producers' Association in Katharinaberg, Erzgebirge (1912)
Risk Classification Appeal by Norbert Hochsieder, Boarding House Owner in Marienbad (1912)
Letters to the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in Prague (1912-15)
Criminal Charge against Josef Renelt for the Illegal Withholding of Insurance Fees (1913)
Second International Congress on Accident Prevention and First Aid in Vienna (1913)
Accident Prevention in Quarries (1914)
Jubilee Report: Twenty-Five Years of the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute (1914)
Risk Classification and Accident Prevention in Wartime (1915)
A Public Psychiatric Hospital for German-Bohemia (1916)
"Help Disabled Veterans! An Urgent Appeal to the Public" (1916/1917)

References

Kafka, Franz. Franz Kafka: The Office Writings. Princeton University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-691-12680-7

Works by Franz Kafka

Novels

Short stories

1902–12	"Shamefaced Lanky and Impure in Heart" "Description of a Struggle" "Wedding Preparations in the Country" "The Judgment" "The Stoker" The Metamorphosis "The Aeroplanes at Brescia"

1914–17	"In the Penal Colony" "The Village Schoolmaster" "Before the Law" "Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor" "A Country Doctor" "The Hunter Gracchus" "The Great Wall of China" "A Message from the Emperor" "A Report to an Academy" "A Dream" "Up in the Gallery" "A Fratricide" "The Next Village" "A Visit to a Mine" "Jackals and Arabs" "The Bridge" "The Bucket Rider" "The New Advocate" "An Old Manuscript" "The Knock at the Manor Gate" "Eleven Sons" "My Neighbor" "A Crossbreed" "The Cares of a Family Man"

1917–23	"The Refusal" "A Hunger Artist" "Investigations of a Dog" "A Little Woman" "The Burrow" "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk" "A Common Confusion" "The Truth about Sancho Panza" "The Silence of the Sirens" "Prometheus" "The City Coat of Arms" "Poseidon" "Fellowship" "At Night" "The Problem of Our Laws" "The Conscription of Troops" "The Test" "The Vulture" "The Helmsman" "The Top" "A Little Fable" "Home-Coming" "First Sorrow" "The Departure" "Advocates" "The Married Couple" "Give It Up!" "On Parables"

Short story
collections

Diaries and
notebooks

Letters
and essays

Plays

The Warden of the Tomb

Category

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Franz Kafka: The Office Writings

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