Bøker av Franz Kafka

"e;I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."e; Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka recounts the story of Gregor Samsa, a salesman. One morning, Gregor wakes up to find himself transformed into a huge insect. This mysterious and startling occurrence is unsettling not only for Gregor but also for his family members. Struggling to adjust to his new self, Gregor starts living in seclusion. His family members begin to snub him as they struggle to earn a livelihood on their own. Eventually, they start perceiving him as a burden. The thought of getting rid of "e;it"e; infiltrates their mind, causing Gregor's unbelievable death.

This collection has Kafkas best twenty-one short stories. It has a total length of around 54,000 words. This is the most comprehensive and recent translation of Franz Kafkas stories, including short and long tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real.Kafka was born into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In his lifetime, most of the population of Prague spoke Czech, and the division between Czech- and German-speaking people was a tangible reality, as both groups were strengthening their national identity. The Jewish community often found itself in between the two sentiments, naturally raising questions about a place to which one belongs. Kafka himself was fluent in both languages, considering German his mother tongue. Kafka trained as a lawyer and, after completing his legal education, obtained employment with an insurance company. He began to write short stories in his spare time. For the rest of his life, he complained about the little time he had to devote to what he came to regard as his calling.

Høsten 1991 ble Franz Kafkas Prosessen kåret til «Århundrets bok» av en gruppe litteraturkyndige personer i Norge. Beretningen om Josef K., som en morgen blir arrestert uten å få vite hvorfor, er en besettende skildring av menneskets angst og fremmedfølelse. Slottet er ikke mindre angstfylt og ruvende. Men mange av Franz Kafkas fortellinger er også blant høydepunktene i verdenslitteraturen. Her foreligger et utvalg av de aller sterkeste.Til slutt i boken følger bonustekster: et utvalg av Franz Kafkas beste sitater. Og en biografisk oversikt over viktige hendelser og utgivelser i forfatterens liv.Franz Kafka ble født i Praha 3. juli 1883. Han var forlovet to ganger, men giftet seg aldri. Som forfatter kom han tidlig inn i kretsen omkring Franz Werhel og Max Brod, men han var ikke ivrig på å utgi det han skrev. Han ga motvillig ut noen små fortellinger. Flesteparten av verkene sørget Max Brod for å få utgitt etter hans død i 1924, til tross for at han hadde lovet å brenne manuskriptene.Skrevet om serien Forfatternes beste:Terningkast 6. «Anbefales for alle med et snev av litterær interesse!»Odd Erik Hagen, Oppland Arbeiderblad

"A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature-featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka's acclaimed biographer. In 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zèurau aphorisms, after the Bohemian village in which he composed them. Among the most mysterious of Kafka's writings, they explore philosophical questions about truth, good and evil, and the spiritual and sensory world. This is the first annotated, bilingual volume of these extraordinary writings, which provide great insight into Kafka's mind. Edited, introduced, and with commentaries by preeminent Kafka biographer and authority Reiner Stach, and freshly translated by Shelley Frisch, this beautiful volume presents each aphorism on its own page in English and the original German, with accessible and enlightening notes on facing pages.The most complex of Kafka's writings, the aphorisms merge literary and analytical thinking and are radical in their ideas, original in their images and metaphors, and exceptionally condensed in their language. Offering up Kafka's characteristically unsettling charms, the aphorisms at times put readers in unfamiliar, even inhospitable territory, which can then turn luminous: "I have never been in this place before: breathing works differently, and a star shines next to the sun, more dazzlingly still."Above all, this volume reveals that these multifaceted gems aren't far removed from Kafka's novels and stories but are instead situated squarely within his cosmos-arguably at its very core. Long neglected by Kafka readers and scholars, his aphorisms have finally been given their full due here"--

The story is about Gregorio Samsa, whose sudden transformation into a huge insect makes it more and more difficult for his social environment to communicate with him, until he is considered intolerable by his family and finally perishes.One morning, after a restless sleep, Gregorio Samsa tries to get up to go to work, but realizes that during the night he has transformed into an insect; Realizing how late it is, he tries to start his usual daily activities, but lying on his back, he cannot get out of bed.

Diese Buch Sammlung ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) war ein deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller. Kafkas Werke zählen unbestritten zum Kanon der Weltliteratur. Sein Hauptwerk bilden neben drei Romanfragmenten zahlreiche Erzählungen. Kafkas Werke wurden zum größeren Teil erst nach seinem Tod und gegen seine letztwillige Verfügung von Max Brod veröffentlicht, einem engen Freund und Vertrauten, den Kafka als Nachlassverwalter bestimmt hatte. Inhalt: - Das Urteil - Die Verwandlung - Ein Bericht für eine Akademie - In der Strafkolonie - Forschungen eines Hundes

Diese Buch Sammlung ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) war ein deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller. Kafkas Werke zählen unbestritten zum Kanon der Weltliteratur. Sein Hauptwerk bilden neben drei Romanfragmenten zahlreiche Erzählungen. Kafkas Werke wurden zum größeren Teil erst nach seinem Tod und gegen seine letztwillige Verfügung von Max Brod veröffentlicht, einem engen Freund und Vertrauten, den Kafka als Nachlassverwalter bestimmt hatte. Inhalt: - Das Urteil - Die Verwandlung - Ein Bericht für eine Akademie - In der Strafkolonie - Forschungen eines Hundes