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La metamorfosis (en español): Libro esencial de Kafka.
Gregorio, es un muchacho joven de unos 23 años. Se gana la vida como comerciante de telas, lo cual le da sustento para sus padres y su hermana. Pero de repente, tras la metamorfosis, se levanta un día convertido en un enorme insecto, un escarabajo gigante. Esto le impide seguir realizando su oficio de comerciante y obliga al resto de su familia a trabajar para poder sobrevivir. Su extraña situación y el rechazo que provoca en su entorno le llevan a recluirse y aislarse socialmente.
Esta es una de las mejores obras de literatura existencialista. La Metamorfosis, que está considerada una de las mejores obras de Kafka, nos muestra la lucha de la existencia humana y los problemas derivados de vivir en sociedad, en un mundo moderno que oprime y deshumaniza a la persona.
Esta es una de las mejores obras de literatura existencialista. La Metamorfosis, que está considerada una de las mejores obras de Kafka, nos muestra la lucha de la existencia humana y los problemas derivados de vivir en sociedad, en un mundo moderno que oprime y deshumaniza a la persona.
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Published March 5, 2023
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Franz Kafka
3,420 books39.1k followersFranz Kafka was a German-speaking writer from Prague whose work became one of the foundations of modern literature, even though he published only a small part of his writing during his lifetime. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kafka grew up amid German, Czech, and Jewish cultural influences that shaped his sense of displacement and linguistic precision. His difficult relationship with his authoritarian father left a lasting mark, fostering feelings of guilt, anxiety, and inadequacy that became central themes in his fiction and personal writings.
Kafka studied law at the German University in Prague, earning a doctorate in 1906. He chose law for practical reasons rather than personal inclination, a compromise that troubled him throughout his life. After university, he worked for several insurance institutions, most notably the Workers Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia. His duties included assessing industrial accidents and drafting legal reports, work he carried out competently and responsibly. Nevertheless, Kafka regarded his professional life as an obstacle to his true vocation, and most of his writing was done at night or during periods of illness and leave. Kafka began publishing short prose pieces in his early adulthood, later collected in volumes such as Contemplation and A Country Doctor. These works attracted little attention at the time but already displayed the hallmarks of his mature style, including precise language, emotional restraint, and the application of calm logic to deeply unsettling situations. His major novels The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika were left unfinished and unpublished during his lifetime. They depict protagonists trapped within opaque systems of authority, facing accusations, rules, or hierarchies that remain unexplained and unreachable. Themes of alienation, guilt, bureaucracy, law, and punishment run throughout Kafka’s work. His characters often respond to absurd or terrifying circumstances with obedience or resignation, reflecting his own conflicted relationship with authority and obligation. Kafka’s prose avoids overt symbolism, yet his narratives function as powerful metaphors through structure, repetition, and tone. Ordinary environments gradually become nightmarish without losing their internal coherence. Kafka’s personal life was marked by emotional conflict, chronic self-doubt, and recurring illness. He formed intense but troubled romantic relationships, including engagements that he repeatedly broke off, fearing that marriage would interfere with his writing. His extensive correspondence and diaries reveal a relentless self-critic, deeply concerned with morality, spirituality, and the demands of artistic integrity. In his later years, Kafka’s health deteriorated due to tuberculosis, forcing him to withdraw from work and spend long periods in sanatoriums. Despite his illness, he continued writing when possible. He died young, leaving behind a large body of unpublished manuscripts. Before his death, he instructed his close friend Max Brod to destroy all of his remaining work. Brod ignored this request and instead edited and published Kafka’s novels, stories, and diaries, ensuring his posthumous reputation.
The publication of Kafka’s work after his death established him as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. The term Kafkaesque entered common usage to describe situations marked by oppressive bureaucracy, absurd logic, and existential anxiety. His writing has been interpreted through existential, religious, psychological, and political perspectives, though Kafka himself resisted definitive meanings. His enduring power lies in his ability to articulate modern anxiety with clarity and restraint.
Kafka studied law at the German University in Prague, earning a doctorate in 1906. He chose law for practical reasons rather than personal inclination, a compromise that troubled him throughout his life. After university, he worked for several insurance institutions, most notably the Workers Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia. His duties included assessing industrial accidents and drafting legal reports, work he carried out competently and responsibly. Nevertheless, Kafka regarded his professional life as an obstacle to his true vocation, and most of his writing was done at night or during periods of illness and leave. Kafka began publishing short prose pieces in his early adulthood, later collected in volumes such as Contemplation and A Country Doctor. These works attracted little attention at the time but already displayed the hallmarks of his mature style, including precise language, emotional restraint, and the application of calm logic to deeply unsettling situations. His major novels The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika were left unfinished and unpublished during his lifetime. They depict protagonists trapped within opaque systems of authority, facing accusations, rules, or hierarchies that remain unexplained and unreachable. Themes of alienation, guilt, bureaucracy, law, and punishment run throughout Kafka’s work. His characters often respond to absurd or terrifying circumstances with obedience or resignation, reflecting his own conflicted relationship with authority and obligation. Kafka’s prose avoids overt symbolism, yet his narratives function as powerful metaphors through structure, repetition, and tone. Ordinary environments gradually become nightmarish without losing their internal coherence. Kafka’s personal life was marked by emotional conflict, chronic self-doubt, and recurring illness. He formed intense but troubled romantic relationships, including engagements that he repeatedly broke off, fearing that marriage would interfere with his writing. His extensive correspondence and diaries reveal a relentless self-critic, deeply concerned with morality, spirituality, and the demands of artistic integrity. In his later years, Kafka’s health deteriorated due to tuberculosis, forcing him to withdraw from work and spend long periods in sanatoriums. Despite his illness, he continued writing when possible. He died young, leaving behind a large body of unpublished manuscripts. Before his death, he instructed his close friend Max Brod to destroy all of his remaining work. Brod ignored this request and instead edited and published Kafka’s novels, stories, and diaries, ensuring his posthumous reputation.
The publication of Kafka’s work after his death established him as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. The term Kafkaesque entered common usage to describe situations marked by oppressive bureaucracy, absurd logic, and existential anxiety. His writing has been interpreted through existential, religious, psychological, and political perspectives, though Kafka himself resisted definitive meanings. His enduring power lies in his ability to articulate modern anxiety with clarity and restraint.
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October 8, 2024
El inicio de la lectura me pareció un poco lenta, no me estaba atrayendo, llegué a este libro porque pregunté a ChatGPT que libros breves eran una pieza que consideraba que cualquier adulto debería leer.
Me recomendó este en primer número, hice caso, empecé a leer y como menciono, no me estaba atrayendo, al ser un libro corto de aprox 90 páginas, decidí terminarlo, lo terminé en aprox unas horas.
El libro me dejó descajonado, sintiendo y familiarizando la situación en situaciones donde en cierto momento, tenemos a un familiar, que en su momento nos dio su juventud, o momentos perfectos el siendo adulto y nosotros tal vez niñas o niños, en mi caso mi abuelito, y en cierto momento, la edad le llegó y empezó a tener complicaciones, a modo de estar hospitalizado, y de cierto modo, las personas que tenía al rededor de el, empezaron a verle como en el libro, una carga.
Buen libro, me dejó pensando suficientemente y un poco más atento a mi realidad actual y mi nivel de conciencia.
Me recomendó este en primer número, hice caso, empecé a leer y como menciono, no me estaba atrayendo, al ser un libro corto de aprox 90 páginas, decidí terminarlo, lo terminé en aprox unas horas.
El libro me dejó descajonado, sintiendo y familiarizando la situación en situaciones donde en cierto momento, tenemos a un familiar, que en su momento nos dio su juventud, o momentos perfectos el siendo adulto y nosotros tal vez niñas o niños, en mi caso mi abuelito, y en cierto momento, la edad le llegó y empezó a tener complicaciones, a modo de estar hospitalizado, y de cierto modo, las personas que tenía al rededor de el, empezaron a verle como en el libro, una carga.
Buen libro, me dejó pensando suficientemente y un poco más atento a mi realidad actual y mi nivel de conciencia.
October 23, 2023
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