Building the Great Wall of China

In the construction of the Great Wall of China and other writings from the literary estate, the eight notebooks and fragments about the original handwritten copy. The eight Kafka notebooks are an important document at a critical stage in his relationship with writing and life, and despite their fragmentary nature, they formed the basis for the collection "The Country Doctor" published during his lifetime, as well as existential reflections condensed into fragments after discovering his tuberculosis and nearing death. In this book, "In the Construction of the Great Wall of China and Other Writings from the Literary Estate," is a translation of the notebook texts according to their original order, not the summarized version presented by Max Brod in an effort to provide coherent and meaningful texts. And with the approaching centenary of the death of the author of "The Metamorphosis," it would be beneficial to review these original texts and the writer's workshop, about whom critic Michael Mar says: "Every time one reads Kafka and becomes captivated by his unmatched prose in its expressive power and purity, new and completely different doubts arise. Perhaps this man was not a mystery or a secret, but a miracle."