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Franz Kafka : The Office Writings /

Franz Kafka: The Office Writings brings together, for the first time in English, Kafka's most interesting professional writings, composed 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. Fra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kafka, Franz (Autor)
Otros Autores: Wagner, Benno (Contribuidor, Editor ), Corngold, Stanley (Editor , Contribuidor), Greenberg, Jack (Editor , Contribuidor), Hein, Ruth, Patton, Eric
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations for Kafka Citations
  • Kafka and the Ministry of Writing
  • Kafka's Office Writings: Historical Background and Institutional Setting
  • DOCUMENTS
  • 1. Speech on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the Institute's New Director (1909)
  • 2. The Scope of Compulsory Insurance for the Building Trades (1908)
  • 3. Fixed- Rate Insurance Premiums for Small Farms Using Machinery (1909)
  • 4. Inclusion of Private Automobile "Firms" in the Compulsory Insurance Program (1909)
  • 5. Appeal against Risk Classification of Christian Geipel & Sohn, Mechanical Weaving Mill in Asch (1910)
  • 6. Measures for Preventing Accidents from Wood- Planing Machines (1910)
  • 7. On the Examination of Firms by Trade Inspectors (1911)
  • 8. Workmen's Insurance and Employers: Two Articles in the Tetschen-Bodenbacher Zeitung (1911)
  • 9. Petition of the Toy Producers' Association in Katharinaberg, Erzgebirge (1912)
  • 10. Risk Classification Appeal by Norbert Hochsieder, Boarding House Own er in Marienbad (1912)
  • 11. Letters to the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in Prague (1912-15)
  • 12. Criminal Charge against Josef Renelt for the Illegal Withholding of Insurance Fees (1913)
  • 13. Second International Congress on Accident Prevention and First Aid in Vienna (1913)
  • 14. Accident Prevention in Quarries (1914)
  • 15. Jubilee Report: Twenty- Five Years of the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute (1914)
  • 16. Risk Classification and Accident Prevention in War time (1915)
  • 17. A Public Psychiatric Hospital for German- Bohemia (1916)
  • 18. "Help Disabled Veterans! An Urgent Appeal to the Public" (1916/1917)
  • Wraparound: From Kafka to Kafkaesque
  • Chronology
  • Notes
  • About the Editors
  • Index