The Lost WritingsSelected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, the seventy four pieces gathered here in The Lost Writings have been lost to sight for decades, and two of them have never been translated into English before. Some stories are several pages long; some run about a page; a handful are only a few lines long. All are marvels. Even the most fragmentary texts are revelations. These