While Amerika was posthumously published from an incomplete manuscript, it still works. Perhaps this is due to the dream-like, fragmented narrative we expect from the author. There are some confusing moments, such as the reappearance of an old friend to whom the reader has never been introduced, but...
Als Gregor erwacht ist er plötzlich zum Käfer geworden. Es liegt auf der Hand, dass er sich nicht seinen täglichen Pflichten widmen kann, weil so etwas Haarsträubendes geschehen ist.Dieser Klassiker der phantastischen Literatur erklärt auf wenigen Seiten, was unter dem Begriff ’kafkaesk’ zu verstehe...
Books of 1916: Part Two The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Since childhood I’ve been familiar with the plot of this short novel; people talk about it all the time because it’s so compelling. I even had the first sentence memorized thanks to my older brother. Reciting it was a warm-up exercise in s...
Unfassbar, dass ich bisher kaum von Kafka Notiz genommen habe. Unfassbar! Diese Erzählung gefiel mir jedenfalls sehr gut und ich werde sicherlich noch einen weiteren Blick in die Kafka-Ecke wagen. Ich meine, wow, wie er mit Sprache spielt und mit den Lesererwartungen und am Ende kann ich alles und n...
This book can be read as an introduction to dystopian literature.Joseph K. (the protagonist) arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle. K. believes that he's been invited to a town to do some land surveying, and realises upon his arri...
Okay, maybe I shouldn't be writing too much about this particular short story (if one can call it a story) because it is really only ten pages long, though the funny thing about Kafka is that despite the fact that a piece of writing is, well, short, you can still get an enormous amount out of it (as...
The first page of Kafka's letter to his fatherFrom Feedback to Reflux: Kafka's Cybernetics of Revolt, by Tom McCarthyPublisher's Note--Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater
„ - Jak wyobrażasz sobie koniec? – spytał duchowny. - Przedtem myślałem, że wszystko musi się dobrze skończyć – rzekł K. – Teraz sam w to nieraz wątpię. Nie wiem jak to się skończy (…)” To bardzo dobrze, że „Proces” jest lekturą szkolną choć mam wrażenie, że chodzi tu o podkreślenie niewątpliwego ...
I blundered. I suspect I wouldn't have been in love with this anyway, but I can't blame my feelings exclusively on 'The Trial'. I blame technology.Instead of sticking with the physical copy I own - the 'definitive edition' translated by Willa and Edwin Muir that includes unfinished chapters and reda...
I think it is correct to say that with this particular short story you sort of wonder whether you should be laughing. I never pictured Kafka as being a comic of any sort, though this and Metamorphosis just have this really strange feel about them in that the concept is in one sense really bizarre, a...
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