中文简介：

这是一部现代文学杰出作品的精彩新译本，内含卡夫卡知名传记作者的评论。1917年至1918年，弗兰茨·卡夫卡（Franz Kafka）在波西米亚村庄写了100多条格言，他以该村庄为名，称这些格言为《祖劳格言》。在卡夫卡这部神秘著作中，它们探讨了关于真理、善与恶以及精神和感官世界的哲学问题。这是这些非凡作品的**本双语注释本，它使人们对卡夫卡的思想有了更深刻的了解。这本精美的书由杰出的卡夫卡传记作者和权威人士莱纳·斯塔赫（Reiner Stach）编辑、介绍和评论，并由谢利·弗里施（Shelley Frisch）全新翻译，每条格言都有自己的英文和德文原文页面，并在对页上有易懂的启发性注释。作为卡夫卡作品中最复杂的作品，这些格言融合了文学和分析性思维，思想激进，形象和隐喻新颖，语言特别凝练。这些格言展现了卡夫卡特有的令人不安的魅力，有时会将读者置于陌生、甚至是荒凉的领域，有时又变得明亮起来：“这个地方我还从未来过：呼吸与以往不同了，太阳旁闪耀着一颗星星，比太阳更加夺目。”最重要的是，本书揭示了这些多面性的瑰宝并没有远离卡夫卡的小说和故事，而是完全位于他的宇宙之中——可以说是处于其核心。长期以来，卡夫卡的读者和学者都忽视了他的格言，如今在这里终于得到了充分的肯定。

英文简介：

A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature―featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka's acclaimed biographerIn 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zürau aphorisms, after the Bohemian village in which he composed them. Among the most mysterious of Kafka's writings, they explore philosophical questions about truth, good and evil, and the spiritual and sensory world. This is the first annotated, bilingual volume of these extraordinary writings, which provide great insight into Kafka's mind. Edited, introduced, and with commentaries by preeminent Kafka biographer and authority Reiner Stach, and freshly translated by Shelley Frisch, this beautiful volume presents each aphorism on its own page in English and the original German, with accessible and enlightening notes on facing pages.The most complex of Kafka's writings, the aphorisms merge literary and analytical thinking and are radical in their ideas, original in their images and metaphors, and exceptionally condensed in their language. Offering up Kafka's characteristically unsettling charms, the aphorisms at times put readers in unfamiliar, even inhospitable territory, which can then turn luminous: “I have never been in this place before: breathing works differently, and a star shines next to the sun, more dazzlingly still.”Above all, this volume reveals that these multifaceted gems aren't far removed from Kafka's novels and stories but are instead situated squarely within his cosmos―arguably at its very core. Long neglected by Kafka readers and scholars, his aphorisms have finally been given their full due here.