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. 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