An initiative of the
The Historical-Critical Edition of Fanz Kafka’s Works (FKA)
The historical-critical edition of Franz Kafka’s works (FKA), on which work was begun in January 1995, is projected to encompass 30 volumes and make available the entire text corpus. Following the introductory volume of 1995, which explained the edition’s approach and presented its method using the examples of the “Cathedral” chapter from The Trial and the story The Judgment, in 1997 the extensive facsimile edition of the drafts for The Trial were published. Completed since then are the “Oxford Octavo Notebooks 1 & 2”, the “Oxford Octavo Notebooks 3 & 4”, the “Oxford Octavo Notebooks 5 & 6” (2010), the “Oxford Quarto Notebooks 1 & 2”, as well as Metamorphosis, Three Letters to Milena Jesenská, and Description of a Struggle. Work on the FKA is expected to take a further ten years. The text is documented in the form of facsimiles of the original manuscripts, with the handwritten notes, remarks, and comments by the author aligned typographically, i.e. are given a character, line, and page transcription. In this way, the fragmentary character of the work is preserved, in contrast to the usual expurgated versions. The FKA thus presents Franz Kafka’s work for the very first time in a genuinely authentic form and enables a refined interpretation hitherto impossible.
Zipp – German-Czech Cultural Projects is supporting the scholarly work on the FKA for a period of 20 months.
The Franz Kafka Edition is published in Stroemfeld Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Basel.
Further information is available at www.textkritik.de
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