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Franz Kafka Franz Kafka THE OFFICE WRITINGS (cid:2) Edited by Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg, and Benno Wagner Translations by Eric Patton with Ruth Hein princeton university press princeton and oxford Copyright © 2009 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW All Rights Reserved Cloth ISBN: 978-0-691-12680-7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-691-16799-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kafka, Franz, 1883–1924. [Selections. English. 2009] Franz Kafka : the office writings / edited by Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg, and Benno Wagner ; translations by Eric Patton with Ruth Hein. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978- 0- 691- 12680- 7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Kafka, Franz,1883–1924—Translations into English. 2. Kafka, Franz, 1883–1924—Career in insurance. 3. Kafka, Franz, 1883–1924—Knowledge—Law. I. Corngold, Stanley. II. Greenberg, Jack. III. Wagner, Benno, 1958– IV. Title. PT2621.A26A2 2009 838'.91208—dc22 2008025192 British Library C ata loging- in- Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Sabon Printed on acid- free paper. ∞ press.princeton.edu Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS (cid:2) Preface ix Abbreviations for Kafka Citations xix Kafka and the Ministry of Writing 1 —Stanley Corngold Kafka’s Offi ce Writings: Historical Background and Institutional Setting 19 —Benno Wagner DOCUMENTS 1 Speech on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the Institute’s New Director (1909) 51 Commentary 2 The Scope of Compulsory Insurance for the Building Trades (1908) 54 Commentary 3 Fixed- Rate Insurance Premiums for Small Farms Using Machinery (1909) 74 Commentary 4 Inclusion of Private Automobile “Firms” in the Compulsory Insurance Program (1909) 80 Commentary vi CONTENTS 5 Appeal against Risk Classifi cation of Christian Geipel & Sohn, Mechanical Weaving Mill in Asch (1910) 90 Commentary 6 Meas ures for Preventing Accidents from Wood- Planing Machines (1910) 109 Commentary 7 On the Examination of Firms by Trade Inspectors (1911) 120 Commentary 8 Workmen’s Insurance and Employers: Two Articles in the Tetschen-B odenbacher Zeitung (1911) 145 Commentary 9 Petition of the Toy Producers’ Association in Katharinaberg, Erzgebirge (1912) 170 Commentary 10 Risk Classifi cation Appeal by Norbert Hochsieder, Boarding H ouse Own er in Marienbad (1912) 194 Commentary 11 Letters to the Workmen’s Accident Insurance Institute in Prague (1912–15) 213 Commentary 12 Criminal Charge against Josef Renelt for the Illegal Withholding of Insurance Fees (1913) 225 Commentary 13 Second International Congress on Accident Prevention and First Aid in Vienna (1913) 249 Commentary CONTENTS vii 14 Accident Prevention in Quarries (1914) 273 Commentary 15 Jubilee Report: T wenty- Five Years of the Workmen’s Accident Insurance Institute (1914) 301 Commentary 16 Risk Classifi cation and Accident Prevention in War time (1915) 322 Commentary 17 A Public Psychiatric Hospital for G erman- Bohemia (1916) 336 Commentary 18 “Help Disabled Veterans! An Urgent Appeal to the Public” (1916/1917) 346 Commentary Wraparound: From Kafka to Kafkaesque 355 —Jack Greenberg Chronology 373 Notes 379 About the Editors 393 Index 395
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