Mark Harman

Aug 5, 2024 | jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com | Aviya Kushner |Franz Kafka |Mark Harman

Selected StoriesBy Franz Kafka, translated by Mark HarmanHarvard University Press., 304 pages, $28Franz Kafka was not a household name during his lifetime, but he was admired by the kinds of readers who could recognize greatness and immediately usher it into their house of reading — Rainer Maria Rilke and Thomas Mann.

Aug 2, 2024 | forward.com | Franz Kafka |Mark Harman |Aviya Kushner

By Franz Kafka, translated by Mark Harman Harvard University Press., 304 pages, $28Franz Kafka was not a household name during his lifetime, but he was admired by the kinds of readers who could recognize greatness and immediately usher it into their house of reading - Rainer Maria Rilke and Thomas Mann.

May 28, 2024 | lithub.com | Mark Harman

Kafka claims in a letter to Milena Jesenská, his girlfriend and first translator, that the emotional cohesion of “The Judgment” is evident in “every sentence, every word, every—if I may say so—music.” Kafka could hear that “music” in Jesenská’s Czech translation, although he would have initially preferred to hear the voice of his beloved: “I wanted to hear from you and not the voice from the old grave, the voice I know all too well.” His high praise of Jesenská’s translation could only have...