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About Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker.” He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.

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Franz Kafka (Praga, Imperio austrohúngaro, 3 de julio de 1883 - Kierling, Austria, 3 de junio de 1924) fue un escritor de origen judío nacido en Bohemia que escribió en alemán. Su obra está considerada una de las más influyentes de la literatura universal y está llena de temas y arquetipos sobre la alienación, la brutalidad física y psicológica, los conflictos entre padres e hijos, personajes en aventuras terroríficas, laberintos de burocracia, y transformaciones místicas.

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 correspondencia y escritos autobiográficos. Su peculiar estilo literario ha sido comúnmente asociado con la filosofía artística del existencialismo --al que influenció-- y el expresionismo. Estudiosos de Kafka discuten sobre cómo interpretar al autor, algunos hablan de la posible influencia de alguna ideología política antiburocrática, de una religiosidad mística o de una reivindicación de su minoría etnocultural, mientras otros se fijan en el contenido psicológico de sus obras. Sus relaciones personales también tuvieron gran impacto en su escritura, particularmente su padre (Carta al padre), su prometida Felice Bauer (Cartas a Felice) y su hermana (Cartas a Ottla).

El término kafkiano se usa en el idioma español para describir situaciones surrealistas como las que se encuentran en sus libros y tiene sus equivalentes en otros idiomas. Solo unas pocas de sus obras fueron publicadas durante su vida. La mayor parte, incluyendo trabajos incompletos, fueron publicados por su amigo Max Brod, quien ignoró los deseos del autor de que los manuscritos fueran destruidos.

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The Metamorphosis 22 May, 2023

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Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. "monstrous vermin") and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, with differing interpretations being offered. In popular culture and adaptations of the novella, the insect is commonly depicted as a cockroach.

With a length of about 70 printed pages over three chapters, it is the longest of the stories Kafka considered complete and published during his lifetime. The text was first published in 1915 in the October issue of the journal Die weißen Blätter under the editorship of René Schickele. The first edition in book form appeared in December 1915 in the series Der jüngste Tag, edited by Kurt Wolff.

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The Metamorphosis (AmazonClassics Edition) 17 Sep, 2019

by Franz Kafka, Ian C. Johnston

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One morning, traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes from an anxious dream to discover that he has inexplicably changed into a monstrous insect. Nonetheless, life goes on, and poor Gregor is left to deal not only with the existential questions of who or what he now is but also with more mundane concerns: his job (which he fears he’ll lose), his loved ones (whom he fears he disgusts), and the daily indignities of everyday life (which continue apace). Soon, even those who sympathize with his bizarre predicament begin to lose their patience…

A darkly comic examination of social mores, family dynamics, and the nature of identity itself, Kafka’s unsettling masterpiece has inspired a century of literary debate and interpretive theories. But its enduring power lies in the simplicity of its audacious premise, its deadpan surrealism, and its humane sensitivity.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Metamorphosis, this edition of The Metamorphosis (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

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The Metamorphosis 28 Jan, 2022

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning, from restless dreams he found himself recast in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armour-plated, back and when he raised his head a little he could see his domelike brown tummy separated into stiff arched parts on top of which the bed quilt could barely keep in place and was about to slide off entirely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully delicate corresponded to the remainder of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes. With its stunning, eccentric, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his chef-d'oeuvre, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a youthful man who, changed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, evolves an entity of disrepute to his family, a stranger in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man.

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Franz Kafka: 21 Short Tales 13 Sep, 2011

by Franz Kafka, David Barrett

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A selection of twenty-one pieces of Kafka's short fiction in a new (2011) English translation. Ranging from tiny sketches and prose poems to longer, more conventional narratives, the stories included here are:

A Country Doctor - In the Gods - An Old Folio - Before the Law - Jackals and Arabs - A Visit to the Mine - The Next Village - An Imperial Message - A Paterfamilias Perplexed - Eleven Sons - A Fratricide - A Dream - Bucket Rider - Of Metaphors - The Silence of the Sirens - Gracchus the Hunter - The Knock on the Courtyard Door - Advocates - The Vulture - At Night - A Little Fable.

This e-book has a total length of around 16,000 words.

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The Trial 6 Aug, 2019

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A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K, an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released but must report to court on a regular basis, an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life, including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door, becomes increasingly unpredictable. As Joseph tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral.

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Franz Kafka: Short Stories (Fifty & More Stories) 30 Nov, 2020

by Franz Kafka

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This collection has Kafka's more than fifty best short stories. This is the most comprehensive and recent translation of Franz Kafka's stories. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real.

Few Stories which are part of this collections are; " Children On A Country Road", "The Tress", "Clothes", "The Way Home", "On The Tram", "A Dream", "Up In The Gallary", "Jackals and Arabs", "Eleven Sons", "At Night", "The Problem Of Our Laws", "The Test", "The Vulture", "The Married Couple", "Postscript".

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Franz Kafka Selected Works 5 Jun, 2020

by Franz Kafka

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Franz Kafka’s short stories—shocking, complex,
intriguing, and unsettling—show him at the height of
his writing prowess. Kafka takes up universal themes
such as guilt, isolation, alienation, self-expression,
cruelty, judgement, shame, sin, and redemption in
them. Hovering between dream and reality, his dark
and brilliantly crafted stories are populated by both
humans and animals. Intense, enigmatic, they are
filled with generous doses of irony and horror that
inspire the reader to search for meaning in the world’s
maze. This collection features an impressive clutch of
his short stories including In ‘The Penal Colony’, ‘The
Hunger Artist’, ‘The Metamorphosis’, ‘The Burrow’,
‘The Judgment’, ‘Before the Law’, ‘A Country Doctor’,
and ‘The Great Wall of China’. ‘The Penal Colony’ is
seeped in the dehumanising horror of WWI and mixes
the dazzle of modern technological advances with the
barbarism of archaic, absolute law. ‘The Metamorphosis’
in which the alienated hero turns into an insect is an
exquisite study of the human condition. The characters
in Kafka’s stories are hunted and haunted, wandering in
a world governed by forces beyond their control.

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Best Short Tales of Franz Kafka (DF Modern Classics) 25 Mar, 2022

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‘Best Short Tales of Franz Kafka’ is a unique body of writing—much of which is incomplete and which was mainly published posthumously—is viewed to be among the most influential in Western literature. Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short-story writer, who was one of the major fiction writers of the 20th century. He was born to a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Bohemia (presently the Czech Republic), Austria–Hungary.
Kafka’s work, which connects elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and unfathomable socio-bureaucratic powers and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity.
Few of Kafka's works were published during his lifetime. In his will, Kafka instructed his executor and friend Max Brod to destroy his unfinished works, but Brod ignored these instructions. His work has influenced a vast range of writers, critics, artists, and philosophers during the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Letters to Milena: Discover Franz Kafka’s love letters – the surprise TikTok sensation! (Vintage Classics) 6 Dec, 2018

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'You are the knife I turn inside myself'

Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer

Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech. Their relationship quickly developed into a deep attachment. Such was his feeling for her that Kafka showed her his diaries and, in doing so, laid bare his heart and his conscience.

While at times Milena's 'genius for living' gave Kafka new life, it ultimately exhausted him, and their relationship was to last little over two years. In 1924 Kafka died in a sanatorium near Vienna, and Milena died in 1944 at the hands of the Nazis, leaving these letters as a moving record of their relationship.

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Franz Kafka: The Complete Novels 22 May, 2023

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This book contains the complete novels of Franz Kafka in the chronological order of their original publication.

- The Trial
Written in 1914, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, Kafka's nightmare has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.

- The Castle
Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death, The Castle is the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle.

- Amerika
Here is the story of young Karl Rossman, who, following an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. With unquenchable optimism and in the company of two comic-sinister companions, he throws himself into misadventure, eventually heading towards Oklahoma, where a career in the theater beckons.

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Metamorphosis 29 Mar, 2017

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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 which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing — though absurdly comic — meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction...

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The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) 2 Jul, 2015

by Franz Kafka, Idris Parry

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A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life--including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door--becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral.

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