About the book: 2014 / Before you is not just a collection that includes the most significant of the “small” works of Franz Kafka, but a collection that is strikingly original according to the principles of selection, because it allows the reader to look at Kafka’s work in its two “extreme” manifestations. On the one hand, there is surrealism and the absolute expression in words of the dark, merciless “absurdity of existence.” On the other hand, the works are transparently philosophical, exquisitely subtle and distinguished by a peculiar “inner peace”. This is Franz Kafka - very different, but always original…