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The Best of Franz Kafka's Short Stories

By: Franz Kafka
Narrated by: Lotte Lenya
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Lotte Lenya reads "Up In The Gallery", "The Cares of a Family Man", "The Bucket Rider", "A Hunger Artist", and "A Fratricide".

©2011 Saland Publishing (P)2011 Saland Publishing Classics
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Enjoyed hearing the famous Lotte Lenya. The stories were fascinating and not of this time.

The music was an odd addition.

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This same recording was my introduction to Kafka [minus the unnecessary soundtrack] I was a son of the sixties and explored many things and during my travels found myself in the basement room with friends to listen to this same recording.

We were spellbound and wanted to listen again but Seer said "No!. . .once a week only as l never want tire of this." And he was right. Each week we gathered with new friends to share our new find.

The reader Lotte Lenya added to the gray atmosphere seen in most WW II films of Nazi occupation. Her voice has a harshness which accents each phrase akin to mood in his work.

You will remember her as Colonel Klegg, the Soviet defector to Spectre in From Russia With Love. lf you don't remember. . .you will the instant you hear her first phrase.

My only bad mark was adding music to detract from my experience.
You will enjoy this.
TD HANSON

LOTTE LENYA READS KAFKA

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Old fashion production. Its affected style contrasts with Kafka's understated tone. The recordings are limited to a couple of hours and exclude some of Kafka's best short stories.

Grandiloquent

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Perhaps the absolute worst audiobook in my thousand plus collection. Infernal violin orchestra playing much too loudly over an incomprehensible soft spoken narrator speaking english from who-knows-where. Absolutely hated it. I can’t believe I paid to have Kafka murdered in this brutal way. Shame on Audible for even offering this at any price.

Awful!

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Hystrionic reader

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I love Kafka but unfortunately the narrator has a very thick accent and it was hard to follow. I speak several languages and understand the need to be clear and concise. I also would have liked it if each short story was named beforehand. Disappointing.

Awful

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I only got through 45 frustrating seconds of that shrill contralto. listening to this was so absurd it was Kafkaeske

annoying narrator

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This is the worst of the over 300 Audible books I have purchased. The genius of Kafka’s words were buried by this narrator’s heavy accent. The decision to employ background music in this recording was idiotic. PLEASE REFUND MY MONEY!

Unintelligible

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Narrator is very difficult to understand, and doubly so with the music playing over it. I was so looking forward to the short stories. The music is so annoying. Hope it is returnable

Can barely understand narrator

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