Author | Franz Kafka |
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Original title | Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer |
Translator | Willa and Edwin Muir |
Language | German |
Genre | Short stories |
Publisher | Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag |
Publication date
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1931 |
Published in English
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Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | xvi+285 |
Original text
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at German |
The Great Wall of China (German: Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer) is the first posthumous collection of short stories by Franz Kafka published in Germany in 1931. It was edited by Max Brod and Hans Joachim Schoeps and collected previously unpublished short stories, incomplete stories, fragments and aphorisms written by Kafka between 1917 and 1924. The first English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in 1933. The same translation was published in 1946 by Schocken Books.