Essential Novelists Franz Kafka

Author : Franz Kafka,August Nemo
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783967999846

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Essential Novelists - Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka,August Nemo Pdf

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of FranzKafkawhich areThe MetamorphosisandThe Trial. Author Franz Kafka explored the human struggle for understanding and security in his novels such as Amerika, The Trial and The Castle. Novels selected for this book: -The Metamorphosis -The Trial This is one of many books in the seriesEssential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141198176

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The Essential Kafka Boxed Set by Franz Kafka Pdf

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Alienation (Social psychology)
ISBN : 1840227265

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The Essential Kafka by Franz Kafka Pdf

A culturally-influential and celebrated author, Kafka is generally considered to be one of the most accomplished writers of the 20th century. In this boxed set are collected together three of his major works, including the maginificent 'Metamorphosis and Other Stories'.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786558943136

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KAFKA Essential by Franz Kafka Pdf

Franz Kafka is widely recognized as one of the great writers of the 20th century. Associated with expressionism and existentialism, his literary creations managed to encompass themes as complex as the condition of contemporary man, anguish, guilt, bureaucracy, frustration, and loneliness, among others. In this volume of Essential Kafka, the reader has access to two important works to better understand the talent and life of this extraordinary writer: "Letter to His Father" is an intimate and profound text that takes us into Kafka's very heart and many of the reasons and inspirations for his work. It is essential for anyone who wants to understand Kafka's work better and, in general, the life of the writer. The short story "A Hunger Artist" explores familiar themes in Kafka's poetic, such as death, isolation, art, asceticism, spiritual poverty, futility, or personal failure, all within a widespread corruption of human relationships. Nothing more Kafkaesque! These works offer a deep and thoughtful insight into Kafka's world and mind, inviting the reader to explore the darkest and most complex aspects of human existence.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780393635638

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Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories by Franz Kafka Pdf

Winner of the 2018 Silver Reuben Award for Graphic Novels A Boston Globe and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year In Kafkaesque, Peter Kuper combines stunning artistic technique with shrewd political and social commentary for a mesmerizing interpretation of fourteen iconic Franz Kafka short stories.

Author : Phillip Lundberg
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781438990224

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Essential Kafka by Phillip Lundberg Pdf

The Judgment, Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, A Report to the Academy, A Country Doctor, The Burrow, Investigations of a Dog or On Substance, Hunger Artist, Josephine the Songstress or The Mouse Folk; Josef K.!, The Messenger & Nocturnal Deliberations -a newly expanded Second Edition (9 Stories & 3 Novel Excerpts) with a Postscript on the Translator's Art. This translation of Kafka has a dual purpose, for starters it intends to provide English readers with a much better translation: that Kafka's prose should find a more fitting analogy in modern (American) English whereby it should come to life to a greater degree, and that his underlying philosophy—and I say philosophy in the greater sense—thus, should be grasped more readily. The second purpose is to explore issues regarding translation per se: what is the proper role of the translator and why is it that the vast majority of translations tend to leave the typical reader perplexed and, quite frankly, dissatisfied? The stories and excerpts included in this second edition have been carefully chosen to really bring the reader to the core issues that make manifest Kafka’s literary genius. This book also contains a short postscript on the art of translation that argues against the current modus operandi of translation theory, indeed, it goes so far as to quote from Kafka's diaries—on his state of mind in composing—as well as from Schleiermacher and early Roman translators on the responsibility of the translator to capture the spirit of the work in an imaginative manner. Kafka was struggling in his writings with matters that go beyond the normal concerns and my intention in this translation is to remain true to Kafka’s aims. Thus, this translation may prove valuable not only for the general readership but likewise for those who wish to study the intricacies of translation of text that deals with the most important matters. All the same, one should never neglect the humorous side and the joy to be discovered in having the last laugh.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783985940387

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The Trial - Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka Pdf

This ebook compiles Franz Kafka's greatest writings, including novels, novellas, short stories and parables such as "Amerika", "The Trial", "The Metamorphosis", "The Castle", "In the Penal Colony", "A Hunger Artist" and "The Great Wall of China".This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.

Author : Despiniadis Costas Despiniadis
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781551646862

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Anatomist of Power by Despiniadis Costas Despiniadis Pdf

Few twentieth-century writers remain as potent as Franz Kafka-one of the rare figures to maintain both a major presence in the academy and on the shelves of general readers. Yet, remarkably, no work has yet fully focused on his politics and anti-authoritarian sensibilities. The Anatomist of Power: Franz Kafka and the Critique of Authority is a fascinating new look at his widely known novels and stories (including The Trial, Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony and Amerika), portraying him as a powerful critic of authority, bureaucracy, capitalism, law, patriarchy, and prisons. Making deft use of Kafka's diaries, his friends' memoirs, and his original sketches, Costas Despiniadis addresses his active participation in Prague's anarchist circles, his wide interest in anarchist authors, his skepticism about the Russian Revolution, and his ambivalent relationship with utopian Zionism. The portrait of Kafka that emerges is striking and fresh-rife with insights and a refusal to accept the structures of power that dominated his society.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811228022

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The Lost Writings by Franz Kafka Pdf

A windfall for every reader: a trove of marvelous impossible-to-find Kafka stories in a masterful new translation by Michael Hofmann Selected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, the seventy-four pieces gathered here have been lost to sight for decades and two of them have never been translated into English before. Some stories are several pages long; some run about a page; a handful are only a few lines long: all are marvels. Even the most fragmentary texts are revelations. These pieces were drawn from two large volumes of the S. Fischer Verlag edition Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente (totaling some 1100 pages). “Franz Kafka is the master of the literary fragment,” as Stach comments in his afterword: "In no other European author does the proportion of completed and published works loom quite so...small in the overall mass of his papers, which consist largely of broken-off beginnings.” In fact, as Hofmann recently added: “‘Finished' seems to me, in the context of Kafka, a dubious or ironic condition, anyway. The more finished, the less finished. The less finished, the more finished. Gregor Samsa’s sister Grete getting up to stretch in the streetcar. What kind of an ending is that?! There’s perhaps some distinction to be made between ‘finished' and ‘ended.' Everything continues to vibrate or unsettle, anyway. Reiner Stach points out that none of the three novels were ‘completed.' Some pieces break off, or are concluded, or stop—it doesn’t matter!—after two hundred pages, some after two lines. The gusto, the friendliness, the wit with which Kafka launches himself into these things is astonishing.”

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780671531454

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The Basic Kafka by Franz Kafka Pdf

Published together for the first time are selections from all Kafka's writings: The Metamorphosis, Josephine The Singer, plus his short stories, parables, and his personal diaries and letters.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Random House
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Classical fiction
ISBN : 9780099518440

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The Complete Novels by Franz Kafka Pdf

Both Joseph K in 'The Trial' and K in 'The Castle' are victims of anonymous governing forces beyond their control. Both are atomised, estranged and rootless citizens deceived by authoritarian power. In 'America', Karl Rossmann also finds himself isolated and confused when he is sent to America by his parents.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8196991436

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Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka Pdf

"Franz Kafka: The Complete Novels" presents a comprehensive collection of the literary masterpieces by the enigmatic Czech writer. Dive into the surreal and thought-provoking worlds crafted by Kafka, where ordinary individuals grapple with the absurdity of existence and the complexities of human nature. This anthology includes iconic works such as "The Trial," "The Metamorphosis," and "First Sorrow," offering readers a profound exploration of existential dilemmas, bureaucratic nightmares, and the haunting landscapes of Kafkaesque imagination. With a unique blend of existentialism and surrealism, Kafka's timeless narratives continue to captivate and challenge readers, making this collection an essential journey into the literary genius of one of the 20th century's most influential writers.

Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374515362

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The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor Pdf

Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement Day"--sent to her publisher shortly before her death—is a brilliantly rewritten and transfigured version of "The Geranium." Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by O'Connor's longtime editor and friend, Robert Giroux.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Om Books International
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789352766932

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The Originals : The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Pdf

"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself. Originally published in German as die verwandlung (1915), The metamorphosis is one of the Austrian writer Franz Kafka's finest stories. A masterpiece of absurdist Kafkaesque fiction, The novella traces the life of a salesman, Gregor SA MS a, who wakes up one day to find himself transformed into a hideous insect. With its myriad psychological, sociological, feminist and artistic interpretations, this novella remains a favourite amongst literary critics. Subsequent writers of absurdist fiction were deeply inspired by the metamorphosis, that has been adapted into film, television and theatre since it was first published."

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Picador
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374722296

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He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka Pdf

A new selection of Franz Kafka’s shorter fiction and nonfiction work, selected and with a preface by Book of Numbers author Joshua Cohen. “Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who’s standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.” —Joshua Cohen, from his foreword to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, the minor works that are actually major. Joshua Cohen has produced a frame that refuses distinctions between what is a story, a letter, a workplace memo, and a diary entry, also including popular favorites like The Bucket Rider, The Penal Colony, and The Burrow. Here we see Kafka’s preoccupations in writing about animals, messiah variations, food, and exercise, each in his signature style. Cohen’s selection emphasizes the stately structure of utterly coherent logic within an utterly incoherent and illogical world, showing how Kafka harnessed the humblest grammar to metamorphic power, until the predominant effect ceases to be the presence of an unreliable narrator but the absence of the universe’s only reliable narrator—God.