Franz Kafka
1) The trial
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On the day after his thirtieth birthday, Josef K, a bank teller, is arrested by two mysterious agents of an unspecified organization. Confused and shocked, Josef inquires about the crime he is being accused of, but the agents will not answer, leaving Josef to decide what he feels most guilty for. Though he is not imprisoned, Josef is told to await further instructions. Tortured by the unknown, Josef returns to his home and tries to guess what he could...
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"Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka is a haunting and surreal exploration of existentialism and the human condition. This novella introduces readers to Gregor Samsa, a diligent traveling salesman who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect.
Kafka's narrative delves into the isolation, alienation, and absurdity that Gregor experiences as he grapples with his new identity. The novella is a profound examination of the individual's...
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Durante el otoño de 1912, en Praga, escribió Franz Kafka (1883-1924) La metamorfosis, la peripecia subterránea y literal de Gregor Samsa, un viajante de comercio que al despertarse una mañana "de un sueño lleno de pesadillas se encontró en su cama convertido en un bicho enorme". En pocos libros de Kafka queda tan explícito y tan nítido su mundo como en La metamorfosis, en la que el protagonista, convertido en bestia, sumido en la más absoluta...
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The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial.
“An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic.” —The New York Times
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“An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic.” —The New York Times
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A windfall for every reader: a trove of marvelous impossible-to-find Kafka stories in a masterful new translation by Michael Hofmann
Selected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, the seventy-four pieces gathered here have been lost to sight for decades and two of them have never been translated into English before. Some stories are several pages long;...Author
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In the days when hunger could be cultivated and practiced as an art form, the individuals who practiced it were often put on show for all to see. One man who was so devout in his pursuit of hunger pushed against the boundaries set by the circus that housed him and strived to go longer than forty days without food. As interest in his art began to fade, he pushed the boundaries even further. In this short story about one man's plight to prove his worth,...
8) The Castle
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Kafka's final novel was written during 1922, when the tuberculosis that was to kill him was already at an advanced stage. Fragmentary and unfinished, it perhaps never could have been finished; perhaps the tensions between K., the Castle and the village, K.'s struggle for acceptance or recognition by the mysterious Castle authorities or by the people of the village, never will and never can be resolved.Like much of Kafka's work, The Castle is enigmatic...
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Ein Reisender kommt auf eine ferne Insel in den Tropen: die Strafkolonie. Dort soll er einer Hinrichtung beiwohnen. Im Gespräch mit dem Kommandanten äußert der seltsam unbeteiligt wirkende Reisende jedoch Bedenken, und die Rollen werden neu verteilt ... Franz Kafkas beklemmendes Meisterwerk und einer der einflussreichsten Texte der literarischen Moderne.
10) Die Verwandlung
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"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt." So beginnt Kafkas wohl bekannteste Geschichte. Das Ungeheuerliche wird detailliert und sachlich, fast im Stile eines nüchternen Tatsachenberichts geschrieben.
Die emotional regungslose Art der Erzählung und die Unfassbarkeit des Inhalts des Erzählten bilden einen scharfen Kontrast, welcher dem Unmöglichen die...
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Dover Publications
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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...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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2013
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In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenska, was a gifted and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was uniquely able to recognize Kafka's complex genius and his even more complex character. For the thirty-six-year-old Kafka, she was "a living fire, such...
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Steerforth Press
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2019
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New translations of the best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers
Kafka, whose name has generated an adjective, is one of the best loved writers of the twentieth century. Known for his dark, enigmatic stories, for the absurd nightmares he depicts, his extraordinary imaginative depth is clear in stories from 'A Hunger Artist' to 'The Verdict'.
But Kafka also wrote fizzingly funny, fresh stories,...
Kafka, whose name has generated an adjective, is one of the best loved writers of the twentieth century. Known for his dark, enigmatic stories, for the absurd nightmares he depicts, his extraordinary imaginative depth is clear in stories from 'A Hunger Artist' to 'The Verdict'.
But Kafka also wrote fizzingly funny, fresh stories,...
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The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. As in some of Kafka's other writings, the narrator in this story seems detached from, or perhaps numbed by, events that one would normally expect to be registered with horror. In the Penal Colony describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin before letting him die, all in the course of twelve hours. As the plot unfolds,...
15) Das Urteil
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Der junge Kaufmann Georg Bendemann sitzt über einem Brief an seinen Freund in Russland. Darin berichtet er ihm über seine Verlobung - lange hatte er diese Nachricht verschwiegen.
Dann besucht er seinen alten Vater, berichtet ihm von dem Brief. Der Vater reagiert mit Vorwürfen: Georgs Verhältnis mit seiner Verlobten Frieda sei ein Verrat an dem Freund, an der toten Mutter und an ihm, dem Vater. Schließlich "verurteilt" der Vater Georg zum Tod...
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"Honorable Mention for the 2008 PROSE Award in Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Association of American Publishers" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009" Stanley Corngold is professor of German and comparative literature at Princeton University. Jack Greenberg is the Alphonse Fletcher Professor of Law at Columbia University. Benno Wagner is a professor in the Department of Literature, Media, and Culture at the University of...
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Wedding Preparations in the Country is a fragmented narrative by Franz Kafka, written between 1907 and 1909 and published posthumously. The story itself, namely the journey of the unhappy bridegroom Raban to his bride out in the country, is embedded in a meticulous description of his surroundings.
This narrative was intended to be part of a novel. However, Kafka abandoned the project after multiple attempts.
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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...
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A new selection of Franz Kafka’s shorter fiction and nonfiction work, selected and with a preface by Book of Numbers author Joshua Cohen.
“Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who’s standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.” —Joshua Cohen, from his foreword to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka
This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief,...
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León Tolstói, el famoso escritor ruso, es reconocido como uno de los grandes nombres de la literatura universal, y entre sus obras destacan tres novelas de gran impacto: "Guerra y Paz", "Ana Karenina" y "Resurrección". Pero Tolstói no se limitó a las novelas y escribió muchos textos políticos y cuentos.
Este eBook, al igual que ocurre en los otros volúmenes de la "Colección Mejores Cuentos", es una selección de los mejores cuentos de Tolstói,...