The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories (The Schocken Kafka Library) - Softcover

Kafka, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805210571 ISBN 13: 9780805210576

Verlag: Schocken, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Kafka Franz

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Críticas:

"Kafka's survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon: 'With their posterior legs they were still glued to their father's Jewishness and with their wavering anterior legs they found no new ground.' There is a sense in which Kafka's Jewish question ('What have I in common with Jews?') has become everybody's question, Jewish alienation the template for all our doubts. What is Muslimness? What is femaleness? What is Polishness? These days we all find our anterior legs flailing before us. We're all insects, all Ungeziefer, now."
--Zadie Smith

"Kafka engaged in no technical experiments whatsoever; without in any way changing the German language, he stripped it of its involved constructions until it became clear and simple, like everyday speech purified of slang and negligence. The common experience of Kafka's readers is one of general and vague fascination, even in stories they fail to understand, a precise recollection of strange and seemingly absurd images and descriptions--until one day the hidden meaning reveals itself to them with the sudden evidence of a truth simple and incontestable."
--Hannah Arendt

Reseña del editor:

This collection brings together the stories that Kafka allowed to be published during his lifetime. To Max Brod, his literary executor, he wrote: “Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these.”

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• Verlag: Schocken
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0805210571
• ISBN 13: 9780805210576
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320