This terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information, is the origin of the adjective 'Kafkaesque'. K is never told what he is on trial for, and when he says he is innocent, he is immediately asked 'innocent of what'? Is he perhaps on trial for his innocence? Could he have freed himself from the proceedings by confessing his guilt as a human being? "The Trial" describes a nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of totalitarian regimes.
Obra emblemática, junto con El castillo y La metamorfosis, de lo que se ha dado en llamar lo kafkiano, El proceso se cuenta entre las pocas obras de la literatura que han alcanzado el raro destino
Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and in this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as a long, tense and dramatic confession in which writer and man are gathered together in front of an ambivalent figure of authority, "Letter to my Father" is a desperate attempt to retrace the origins of a turbulent and highly conflicted relationship between an unflinching parent and an extremely sensitive child. Both a merciless indictment of his father and an impassioned appeal to him, Kafka's inspired work is one of the most lucid and touching psychological documents of the twentieth century.
Clássico da literatura mundial, o fantástico de Kafka agora chega a novos leitores.A metamorfose (Die Verwandlung, em alemão) é uma novela escrita por Franz Kafka, publicada pela primeira vez em 1915
Franz Kafka is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century culture. The fascination of his work has long since reached international proportions, and the concept 'Kafkaesque' has entered the English Language as an everyday part of speech. This new edition of Kafka's famous story contains a critical introduction and notes which help to explain how the author achieves his particular effects. The editors are concerned less with what the story means then with how it blocks and baffles its reader, provoking them into an interpretation through its combination of clues and counter-clues, its questions and its uncertainties. Careful attention is therefore paid to the 'openness' of the text, to point of view, and to Kafka's use of language. The editors also consider the important biographical and cultural influences which shaped the writing of the story, and they outline some of the very different ways in which it has been interpreted --biographically, socially and psychologically. A select vocabulary, aimed at the demands of the sixth-form pupil, is also included, and the text itself is taken from the original hardback edition.
Josef K. condannato a morte per una colpa inesistente e vittima del suo tempo. Sostiene interrogatori, cerca avvocati e testimoni soltanto per riuscire a giustificare il suo delitto di "esistere". Ma come sempre avviene nella prosa di Kafka, la concretezza incisiva delle situazioni produce, su personaggi assolutamente astratti, il dispiegarsi di una tragedia di portata cosmica. E allora tribunale e il mondo stesso, tutto quello che esiste al di fuori di Josef K. e processo: non resta che attendere l'esecuzione di una condanna da altri pronunciata.
Franz Kafka (República Checa,1883- Austria, 1924) es uno de los grandes escritores de la literatura universal. Sus novelas, cuentos, diarios y aforismos son una fuente interminable de inspiración par
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