Franz Kafka
1) The trial
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One of the great works of the twentieth century, Kafka's The Trial has been read as a study of political power, a pessimistic religious parable, or a crime novel where the accused man is himself the problem. In it, a man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. Faced with this ambiguous but threatening situation, Josef K. gradually succumbs to its psychological pressure. One of the iconic figures of...
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The Metamorphosis was first published in 1915 and is one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century. The novel is the masterpiece of Franz Kafka, who is cited as a key influence for many of today's leading authors and is one of the most influential writers of the 20th Century. Traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Gregor's transformation is never revealed,...
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A man awakens to find himself transformed into a giant vermin; a performer starves himself to death as a circus attraction; a fiendish engine of capital punishment engraves the letter of the law into the body of the condemned. Such are the nightmare scenarios that emerge in the short stories of Franz Kafka, one of the twentieth century's most formative, mystifying literary figures. Though immediate in their impact, Kafka's stories invite endless angles...
4) The castle
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Kafka's final novel was written during 1922, when the tuberculosis that was to kill him was already at an advanced stage. Fragmentary and unfinished, it perhaps never could have been finished; perhaps the tensions between K., the Castle and the village, K.'s struggle for acceptance or recognition by the mysterious Castle authorities or by the people of the village, never will and never can be resolved.Like much of Kafka's work, The Castle is enigmatic...
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Durante el otoño de 1912, en Praga, escribió Franz Kafka (1883-1924) La metamorfosis, la peripecia subterránea y literal de Gregor Samsa, un viajante de comercio que al despertarse una mañana "de un sueño lleno de pesadillas se encontró en su cama convertido en un bicho enorme". En pocos libros de Kafka queda tan explícito y tan nítido su mundo como en La metamorfosis, en la que el protagonista, convertido en bestia, sumido en la más absoluta...
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In the days when hunger could be cultivated and practiced as an art form, the individuals who practiced it were often put on show for all to see. One man who was so devout in his pursuit of hunger pushed against the boundaries set by the circus that housed him and strived to go longer than forty days without food. As interest in his art began to fade, he pushed the boundaries even further. In this short story about one man's plight to prove his worth,...
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Este ebook presenta "La metamorfosis", con un índice dinámico y detallado. Se trata de un relato de Franz Kafka, publicado en 1916 y que narra la historia de Gregor Samsa, un comerciante de telas que vive con su familia a la que él mantiene con su sueldo, quien un día amanece convertido en un enorme insecto (aparentemente un escarabajo). Una interpretación reconocida se refiere a la identidad desdoblada de Kafka, quien por un lado siente nostalgia...
8) Das Urteil
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Der junge Kaufmann Georg Bendemann sitzt über einem Brief an seinen Freund in Russland. Darin berichtet er ihm über seine Verlobung - lange hatte er diese Nachricht verschwiegen.
Dann besucht er seinen alten Vater, berichtet ihm von dem Brief. Der Vater reagiert mit Vorwürfen: Georgs Verhältnis mit seiner Verlobten Frieda sei ein Verrat an dem Freund, an der toten Mutter und an ihm, dem Vater. Schließlich "verurteilt" der Vater Georg zum Tod...
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Ein Reisender kommt auf eine ferne Insel in den Tropen: die Strafkolonie. Dort soll er einer Hinrichtung beiwohnen. Im Gespräch mit dem Kommandanten äußert der seltsam unbeteiligt wirkende Reisende jedoch Bedenken, und die Rollen werden neu verteilt ... Franz Kafkas beklemmendes Meisterwerk und einer der einflussreichsten Texte der literarischen Moderne.
10) Die Verwandlung
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"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt." So beginnt Kafkas wohl bekannteste Geschichte. Das Ungeheuerliche wird detailliert und sachlich, fast im Stile eines nüchternen Tatsachenberichts geschrieben.
Die emotional regungslose Art der Erzählung und die Unfassbarkeit des Inhalts des Erzählten bilden einen scharfen Kontrast, welcher dem Unmöglichen die...
11) Cuentos de Kafka
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Una genial recopilación de novelas cortas de Frank Kafka. Incluye las obras completas de: La Condena, El artista del hambre, Ser Infeliz y El Fogonero
12) The Burrow
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The Burrow is an incomplete narrative by Franz Kafka, written 1923-1924, and published posthumously in the magazine Witiko in 1931 by Max Brod. It tells of an animal's futile struggle to perfect the defense of his giant burrow against enemies. The narrative deals with becoming entangled in obsessive observation of a self-created labyrinth-like construct that causes heightened paranoia.
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Las Investigaciones de un perro carecen de esa tristeza y oscuridad tan distintivas de la obra de Kafka. La narración es, más bien, el documento de una crisis personal y artística. En la primavera de 1922, Kafka le cuenta a su amigo Robert Klopstock en una carta que para "salvarse de lo que se conoce como nervios" había vuelto a escribir. Unos meses después, tuvo que dejar de trabajar debido al estado de su salud. La actividad artística, uno...
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Franz Kafka es considerado uno de los grandes escritores del siglo XX. Asociado al expresionismo y existencialismo, sus creaciones literarias lograron abarcar temas tan complejos como la condición del hombre contemporáneo, la angustia, la culpa, la burocracia, la frustración o la soledad, entre otros. El proceso (título original alemán: Der Prozess) es una novela de Franz Kafka, publicada de manera póstuma en 1925 por Max Brod, basándose en...
15) A Country Doctor
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"A Country Doctor" is a short story written in 1919 by Franz Kafka. 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. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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Students of German language and literature will welcome this collection of 5 stories by one of the greatest modern writers. Included are "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." Original German texts accompanied by new, literal English translations on facing pages.
18) The Judgement
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"The Judgment" ("Das Urteil") is a short story written by Franz Kafka in 1912, concerning the relationship between a man and his father.(Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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Der 1914/15 entstandene und schon 1925, im Jahr nach Kafkas Tod, veröffentlichte "Proceß" zählt zu den bedeutendsten Romanen des 20. Jahrhunderts. 1990 erschien der Roman erstmals in der Fassung der Handschrift, in der er jetzt auch in diesem E-Book vorgelegt wird.
E-Book mit Seitenzählung der gedruckten Ausgabe in Reclams Universal-Bibliothek: Buch und E-Book können parallel benutzt werden.
20) El proceso
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"El proceso" narra la historia de un hombre, Joseph K., detenido el día de su 30 cumpleaños bajo una acusación que ignora. Es más, ni sus captores ni su abogado, ni siquiera los jueces que llevan su caso, conocen cuál es la causa. K. se convierte desde ese mismo instante en objeto de una maraña legal y jurídica que nadie parece controlar realmente, pero que todos respetan y a la que todos se someten.
Todos excepto K., incapaz de aceptar un...