THE TRIAL is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Kafka even went so far as to call Dostoevsky a blood relative. Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never completed, although...
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." From its gripping first sentence onward, this novel exemplifies the term "«Kafkaesque.» Its darkly humorous narrative recounts a bank clerk's entrapment — based on an undisclosed charge — in a maze of nonsensical rules and bureaucratic roadblocks.Written in 1914 and published posthumously in 1925, Kafka's engrossing parable about the human...
A traveling salesman awakens from troubled slumbers to find himself transformed into a giant insect. Franz Kafka's matter-of-fact tone brings an air of absolute truth to his fantastic narrative, which chronicles the effects of this monstrous conversion upon the protagonist's business and family life. Interpretations of Kafka's acclaimed 1915 novella range from religious allegory to psychoanalytic case history. All agree upon its status as a landmark work of twentieth-century...
The most famous of Franz Kafka's works, The Metamorphosis describes a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. This change in his condition does not surprise or shock his family, rather, they look on it as an impending burden. Subtexts include how society's perceptions of differences, the loneliness of isolation, and the absurdity of the human condition. The Metamorphosis is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the...
The Metamorphosis (original German title: Die Verwandlung) is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect.
THE METAMORPHOSIS (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been called one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself trans¬formed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Gregor's transformation is never...
Eelmise sajandi ühe silmapaistvama kirjaniku Franz Kafka sümbolistlik romaan Mati Sirkeli tõlkes.Kafka jutud viivad meid võrdpildi, mõistujutu maailma. Nad tähendavad seda, mida nad ütlevad, ja viitavad seejuures alati millelegi hõlmavale. Seda romaani võib lugeda kui lugu maamõõtja K. kurnavast võitlusest lossi pääsemiseks, aga seda võib võtta ka inimeksistentsi totaalsuse sümbolina, katsena hõlmata metafooriga tervet inimeksistentsi, tema mõtte ja mõttetuse paradoksi. Kafka sümboolika varal...
Este ebook presenta «Lo mejor de Franz Kafka» con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Tabla de contenido: El proceso El castillo La metamorfosis América Franz Kafka (1883 – 1924) fue un escritor de origen judío nacido en Bohemia que escribió en alemán. Fue autor de tres novelas, El proceso (Der Prozeß), El castillo (Das Schloß) y El desaparecido (Amerika o Der Verschollene), la novela corta La metamorfosis (Die Verwandlung) y un gran número de relatos cortos. Además, dejó una abundante...
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) manifiesta la desesperanza frente a su destino personal y el pesimismo respecto a lo humano entendido genéricamente. Junto a la animalización del hombre que nos plantea en «La metamorfosis», el resto de los relatos que aparecen en esta antología muestran, o bien una «humanización» del animal, o bien el enfrentamiento entre el mundo animal y humano. Al recurrir a animales, Kafka consigue distanciarse suficientemente de lo narrado como para mostrar el dolor, el aislamiento...