Franz Kafka
1) The Trial
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Josef K. is an employee at a bank, an Everyman without any particular qualities or ambitions. His inconsequence makes doubly strange his arrest by an officer of the court, made with no formal charges or explanation. Disoriented and consumed with guilt for a crime he does not understand, Josef K. must justify his life to a court with which he cannot communicate. The defendant can only ask questions, but receives no answers to clarify the surreal world...
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"Superb collection by the modern master explores the complexity, anxiety and futility of modern life. Excellent new English translations of the title story (considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work), plus The Judgment, In the Penal Colony, A Country Doctor and A Report to an Academy"--Publisher description.
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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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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,...
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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.
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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...
7) The castle
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Kafka's last novel, The Castle is set in a remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats. The novel breaks new ground in exploring the relation between the individual and power, asking why the villagers so readily submit to an authority which may exist only in their collective imagination. Published only after Kafka's death, The Castle appeared in the same decade...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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2009
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The diaries of the acclaimed author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—provide a penetrating look into Prague and the life and dreams of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century.
These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a look into Kafka’s accounts of his...
These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a look into Kafka’s accounts of his...
9) 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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Der 1914/15 entstandene und schon 1925, im Jahr nach Kafkas Tod, veröffentlichte "Proceß" zählt zu den bedeutendsten Romanen des 20. Jahrhunderts. 1990 erschien der Roman erstmals in der Fassung der Handschrift, in der er jetzt auch in diesem E-Book vorgelegt wird.
E-Book mit Seitenzählung der gedruckten Ausgabe in Reclams Universal-Bibliothek: Buch und E-Book können parallel benutzt werden.
11) The Judgement
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"The Judgment" ("Das Urteil") is a short story written by Franz Kafka in 1912, concerning the relationship between a man and his father.(Excerpt from Wikipedia)
12) A Country Doctor
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"A Country Doctor" is a short story written in 1919 by Franz Kafka. The plot follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick young boy on a cold winter's night. A series of surreal events occur in the process, including the appearance of a mysterious groom in a pig shed. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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"Description of a Struggle is a three-part story written by Franz Kafka between 1903 and 1907. It constitutes his oldest surviving work and was only published after his death. The first and third sections describe Prague society- and night-life from the point of view of the author and his acquaintance. The central section can be viewed as a fantastical dream sequence divided into several sub-sections.
Kafka wrote two versions of this story."
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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,...
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Franz Kafka (Praga, 1883-1924) fue un escritor bohemio que escribió en alemán. Su obra, una de las más influyentes de la literatura universal, es una de las pioneras en la fusión de elementos realistas con fantásticos, y tiene como principales temas los conflictos paternofiliales, la ansiedad, el existencialismo, la brutalidad física y psicológica, la culpa, la filosofía del absurdo, la burocracia y las transformaciones espirituales.
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17) Der Prozess
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Franz Kafka—Der Prozeß-An seinem 30. Geburtstag wird Josef K. festgenommen und verhört. Die Gründe dafür sind ihm nicht bekannt und werden auch nicht genannt. Ohne greifbares Gericht gilt K. als schuldig wobei niemand das zugrunde liegende Gesetz kennt. Er versucht sich zu verteidigen was für ihn jedoch nur weitere Probleme verursacht.
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Franz Kafka fue un escritor de lengua alemana y autor de novelas y cuentos, reconocido como uno de los escritores más influyentes del siglo XX. En su estilo único de escritura, el autor de "La Metamorfosis" y "El Proceso" desarrolló lo que algunos críticos llaman "kafkiano", donde los personajes realizan reflexiones psicológicas y sufren conflictos existenciales, al igual que las personas contemporáneas. Por esta razón, sus obras se consideran...
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Students of German language and literature will welcome this collection of 5 stories by one of the greatest modern writers. Included are "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." Original German texts accompanied by new, literal English translations on facing pages.