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'I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.' This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, and The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

«Quería lucirme ante ti, hacer gala de fuerza de voluntad, esperar antes de escribirte, despachar antes un acta, pero el despacho está vacío, nadie hace caso de mí, es como si se dijeran: Dejadle, no

Un matin, au réveil, alors qu'il n'est coupable d'aucun crime, Joseph K est accusé et arrêté. Arrêté, mais laissé entièrement libre. Accusé, mais sans savoir ni de quoi ni par qui. Ainsi s'ouvre Le P

«Seguramente alguien había calumniado a Joseph K., ya que sin que él hubiese hecho nada condenable, fue detenido una mañana.» Así empieza El Proceso, una obra inconclusa y publicada póstumamente por

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books The whole town got involved with the hunger artist from day to day of his starving people s participation grew everyone wanted to see the hunger artist at least once a day on the later days there were season ticket holders who sat for days on end in front of his little cage Reading these stories by the master of the absurd is like entering a dreamworld in which nothing and yet somehow everything makes sense

Like George Orwell Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare but in Kafka s world it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is The Trial where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials and if there is any help to be had it will come from unexpected sources is a chilling blackly amusing tale that maintains to the very end a relentless atmosphere of disorientation Superficially about bureaucracy it is in the last resort a description of the absurdity of normal human nature Still more enigmatic is The Castle Is it an allegory of a quasi feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject The search by a central European Jew for acceptance into a dominant culture A spiritual quest for grace or salvation An individual s struggle between his sense of independence and his need for approval Is it all of these things And K Is he opportunist victim or an outsider battling against elusive authority Finally in his fables Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance and no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional uncertainties and anxieties

La metamorfosis (Die Verwandlung, en su título original en alemán) es un relato de Franz Kafka, publicado en 1915 y que narra la historia de Gregorio Samsa, un comerciante de telas que vive con su familia a la que el mantiene con su sueldo, quien un dia amanece convertido en una criatura no identificada claramente en ningun momento, pero que tiende a ser reconocida como una especie de cucaracha gigante.

L obra de Franz Kafka ha estat tradicionalment presentada com un tot unitari, sense fissures, que ens ha pervingut gracies a la negativa de Max Brod a fer cas del testament de lamic i a destruir-la. Tanmateix, Milan Kundera ha posat al descobert el desig de lautor de publicar algunes de les obres, dacord amb una ordenacio precisa, i aixo encara amb unes acurades indicacions tipografiques. En aquest volum (i en els seguents, que apareixeran properament) es respecta escrupolosament aquesta voluntat: Kafkadiu Kunderano solament no renega la seva obra, sino que en fa balanç mirant de separar el que ha de romandre [...]del que no respon a les seves exigencies.Un metge rural (en traduccio revisada de Josep Murgades que reprodueix amb fidelitat lesperit de loriginal) es un dels volums salvats per Kafka.

El castillo de los libros soñadores: Tercera entrega de la saga de Walter Moers. Una aventura fantástica en un castillo donde los libros tienen voluntad propia.

The story of K, the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home, seems to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. In his Introduction, Idris Parry shows that duality - to Kafka a perpetual human condition - lies at the heart of this magnum opus: dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, reason and nonsense, harmony and disintegration. The Castle then, is an unfinished novel that feels strangely complete, in which a labyrinthine world is described in simple language and absurd fantasy reveals profound truth.

Este libro es una recopilación de cuatro de las mejores obras de Kafka; La metamorfosis, Meditaciones, El proceso y América.

La metamorfosis, considerada una de las obras maestras del siglo XX por sus innegables rasgos precursores y el caudal de ideas e interpretaciones que siempre ha provocado. Kafka es testigo de la sociedad de su tiempo, la del hundimiento del viejo orden imperial austrohungaro, un haz de tensiones que recoge bajo la gran metafora que da nombre y que es una mascara mas de su gran obsesion: la debilidad humana.

La deformación subjetiva que imprime a los hechos, así como el carácter onírico de sus escenas, ha motivado que se le clasifique dentro del expresionismo y que se le vincule también con el surrealism