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La metamorfosi (Deluxe): Con le opere di Egon Schiele

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Capolavoro di Franz Kafka, il racconto della metamorfosi di un borghese qualunque in uno scarafaggio non risparmia né orrore né angoscia al suo protagonista, e ai lettori. Le descrizioni minuziose e quasi asettiche del gigantesco insetto, con la sua corazza dura e scura e le zampette sgambettanti, dominano fin dalle prime al commesso viaggiatore Gregor Samsa, straniante alter ego dell'autore, dopo la trasformazione non resta che fare i conti con l'indifferenza che attorno a lui si fa sempre più profonda, persino nella sua stessa famiglia. A questa angosciosa solitudine tipicamente novecentesca fanno eco in questa edizione illustrata una serie di opere scelte di Egon Schiele, dai celebri autoritratti ai panorami desolanti alle sue più tipiche nature morte. Kafka e Schiele ci parlano di un impellente bisogno di liberarsi, dai propri drammi personali e dagli schemi insensati della vita come leggiamo nell'introduzione di Giulio Schiavoni, il pittore austriaco condivise con Kafka «la riflessione sul corpo e sulla sua nudità: ai corpi contorti ed esasperati, debilitati ed emaciati o addirittura mutilati tratteggiati da Schiele, si può affiancare agevolmente anche la vicenda estrema di Gregor Samsa, incentrata su un corpo di cui liberarsi e di cui fare a meno». Per entrambi l'isolamento, il dolore, lo straniamento sono condizioni forse intrinseche nella miseria umana, e l'arte diventa un luogo in cui trasformarsi e vedere così più chiaramente la realtà e se stessi.

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Published September 17, 2024

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Franz Kafka

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Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.

Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.

His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).

Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of the French language and culture from Flaubert, one of his favorite authors.

Kafka first studied chemistry at the Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague but after two weeks switched to law. This study offered a range of career possibilities, which pleased his father, and required a longer course of study that gave Kafka time to take classes in German studies and art history. At the university, he joined a student club, named Lese- und Redehalle der Deutschen Studenten, which organized literary events, readings, and other activities. In the end of his first year of studies, he met Max Brod, a close friend of his throughout his life, together with the journalist Felix Weltsch, who also studied law. Kafka obtained the degree of doctor of law on 18 June 1906 and performed an obligatory year of unpaid service as law clerk for the civil and criminal courts.

Writing of Kafka attracted little attention before his death. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories and never finished any of his novels except the very short "The Metamorphosis." Kafka wrote to Max Brod, his friend and literary executor: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread." Brod told Kafka that he intended not to honor these wishes, but Kafka, so knowing, nevertheless consequently gave these directions specifically to Brod, who, so reasoning, overrode these wishes. Brod in fact oversaw the publication of most of work of Kafka in his possession; these works quickly began to attract attention and high critical regard.

Max Brod encountered significant difficulty in compiling notebooks of Kafka into any chronological order as Kafka started writing in the middle of notebooks, from the last towards the first, et cetera.

Kafka wrote all his published works in German except several letters in Czech to Milena Jesenská.

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January 29, 2025
Gregor Samsa deserved better (e pure Franz Kafka).
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May 11, 2025
Non devo certo commentare questo libro. Sarebbe presuntuoso. Nell'olimpo della letteratura.
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August 8, 2025
anch’io mi sono svegliata come gregor, solo che la sua famiglia per me sono tutti quelli che conosco.
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September 24, 2025
Mi ha molto angosciato, le descrizioni sono perfette le ho amate, ma tanto realistiche che diventano spaventose. Ancora ricordo il viscido sulle pareti che ho letto nel libro. Meraviglioso.
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