Vintage edition, translated by Willa & Edwin Muir, introduction by Adam ThirlwellOr Kafka's Animal Stories plus a couple of others.[3.5]A pedant writes...In most of these stories there were small continuity errors, some of which could conceivably have been due to word choices in translation. (I r...
I didn't want to admit that Kafka was crazy, but it seems impossible not to admit it now. I learned a lot about the man which I had not known before (his enthusiasm for theater, especially Yiddish theater), but I'm not sure it was worth it. It was exhausting, dizzying even, trying to get through ...
القلعة لفرانتس كافكابعد وفاته ترك كافكا رسالة لصديقه ماكس برود يطلب فيهاأن تحرق كل أعماله المنشورة والتي لم تنشر بعد من ذلك هذهالرواية. الا أن الاخير لم يقترف هذه الجريمة الأدبية بل قام بجمع .مسودات كافكا و اعاد ترتيبها وحرص أن تجد طريقها للعلنولأن افعالا" بسيطة" قد تغير وجه التاريخ فان ما قام به...
مازالت تراودني نفس الفكرة كلما قرأت لكافكا وأري نفس النظرة فى عيون كل أبطاله , نظرة كراهية الذات وإحتقارها , ففى مستوطنة العقاب نجد الجندي الذي آمن بالحكم عليه بالموت بآلة التعذيب دون أي مقاومة حتي يقول فيه الكاتب بأنه يبدو عليه كما لو كان كلبا خاضعا , وننتقل إلي الضابط الذي لا يري نفسه أهلا للحي...
For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays. Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y econó...
‘Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.’ A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. The mysterious court which conducts his trial is o...
The last book published during Kafka's lifetime, A Hunger Artist (1924) explores many of the themes that were close to him: spiritual poverty, asceticism, futility, and the alienation of the modern artist. He edited the manuscript just before his death, and these four stories are some of his best...
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of wh...
I have only one request," Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff in 1913. "'The Stoker,' 'The Metamorphosis,' and 'The Judgment' belong together, both inwardly and outwardly. There is an obvious connection among the three, and, even more important, a secret one, for which reason I would be reluc...
Gregor’s labored breathing, from which he had now suffered for over a month—he had managed to chew off the ball of yarn, but a short length remained unreachably twisted in his collar, invisible to all beneath his tufting fur yet continuing as he grew larger and larger to pull the collar alarmingl...
The explorer seemed to have accepted merely out of politeness the Commandant’s invitation to witness the execution of a soldier condemned to death for disobedience and insulting behavior to a superior. Nor did the colony itself betray much interest in this execution. At least, in the small sandy ...
‘If he should forever ahsk me.’ The ah, released from the sentence, flew off like a ball on the meadow. His gravity is the death of me. His head in its collar, his hair arranged immovably on his skull, the muscles of his jowels below, tensed in their places – Are the woods st...
The arm with the sword now reached aloft, and about her figure blew the free winds. “So high,” he said to himself, and although he still had no thoughts of leaving, he found himself being pushed gradually toward the rail by an ever-swelling throng of porters. In passing a young man whom he knew f...