Risultati di "Franz Kafka" in Tutte le categorie

A Kafka story with remarkable insight into the relationship, competition, fear, envy, and more between father and son.

"Någon måste ha förtalat Josef K., ty utan att han gjort något ont blev han häktad en morgon." När Josef K blir häktad har har ingen aning om vad han är anklagad för. Förvirrad och omtumlad får han till sist återvända hem för att utöva sitt arbete som banktjänsteman, men den absurda situationen är långt ifrån över. Omgivningen är hotfull och han kallas till förhör, titt som tätt, som tar plats i en dyster byggnad med vindlande gångar. Desperat försöker han bevisa sin oskuld men av någon anledning tycks ingen tro honom ...

Gregor Samsa is a travelling salesman who wakes up one morning to realize that he been transformed from a human being to a "monstrous vermin". He reflects back on his life, his work, his relationship with his family and his employer, and he realizes that each relationship he has been a part of has been fake. He feels responsible for his family but he does not receive any gratitude from them. The alienation is unbearable and irreversible. His life will either have to change drastically or he will stay victim of his own existential anxiety.

Incluye las siguientes historias: "La metamorfosis", "La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow", "El entierro de las ratas", "Herbert West Reanimador", "El horror de Dunwich", "El morador de las tinieblas", "El fantasma de Caterville", "El hombre de arena".

The classic transformation story by Kafka. A man is transformed into a bug and how everyone deals with the situation from his mother and father, to his employer and paying boarders, and himself.

A Hunger Artist is a short story by Franz Kafka first published in Die neue Rundschau in 1922. The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist, the last book Kafka prepared for publication, printed after Kafka's death. The protagonist, a hunger artist who experiences the decline in appreciation of his craft, is an archetypical creation of Kafka: an individual marginalized and victimized by society at large.

The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. 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 in a script before letting him die, all in the course of 12 hours. As the plot unfolds, the listener learns more and more about the machine, including its origin, and original justification.

On his deathbed, Franz Kafka asked that all his unpublished manuscripts be burned. Fortunately, his request was ignored, allowing such works as The Trial to earn recognition among the literary masterpieces of the 20th century. This brilliant translation of The Castle captures comedic elements and visual imagery that earlier interpretations missed.

In the bizarre world of Franz Kafka, salesmen turn into giant bugs, apes give lectures at college academies, and nightmares probe the mysteries of modern humanity’s unhappiness. More than any other modern writer in world literature, Kafka captures the loneliness and misery that fill the lives of 20th-century humanity.

I Franz Kafkas ikoniske historie "Forvandlingen" eller "Metamorfosen" opdager Gregor Samsa en morgen, at han i nattens løb er blevet forvandlet til et gigantisk insekt. Da han ikke længere formår at skjule forvandlingen for sin familie, oplever han deres foragt og misbilligelse - særligt over, at han ikke længere er i stand til at passe sit arbejde og dermed skaffe penge til familien. "Forvandlingen" er en sorthumoristisk og absurd historie, men også en sørgelig allegori om fremmedgørelse, ensomhed og udstødelse.

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.

A masterful mix of horror and absurdity, Metamorphosis tells the story of travelling salesman Samsa, who wakes up one day to find out he has turned into a giant insect. Samsa has been a model of virtue for years, single-handedly supporting his parents and young sister. Suddenly he finds himself outcast in his own home, facing a world in which he no longer has a place.

Dessen Vaterkonflikt trat nie offener zutage als in seinem berühmten Brief an den Vater, der allerdings nie abgeschickt wurde. Noch heute ein unabdingbarer Bestandteil der Schullektüre!

A transformação (Die Verwandlung, 1915) foi publicada originariamente na revista expressionista Weiße Blätter, que abrigava textos da nova geração de escritores alemães como Heinrich Mann, Ernst Bloch e Rosa Luxemburgo. A novela narra a singular história de Gregor Samsa, um caixeiro viajante que certo dia acorda em sua cama transformado em inseto. Plena de significados simbólicos, a obra deu origem às mais diversas interpretações.