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Рассказы и романы Кафки аллегоричны, но не в обычном смысле этого слова; они являются, так сказать, математическими, алгебраическими символами — столько же условными, сколько реальными. Это своеобразие творческого метода Кафки возникло не само по себе. В нем явственно ощутимы традиции романтического и даже реалистического гротеска прошлого века. Гофман, Гоголь, Достоевский, новеллы Эдгара По — вот те источники, из которых питалось воображение писателя, стремившегося раскрыть некие потаенные, невидимые простым глазом, непознаваемые здравым рассудком отношения человека с действительностью и самим собой... Такими эти отношения представлялись ему, жившему в
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Franz Kafka
3,226 books38.6k followersPrague-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.
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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March 18, 2018
I'm overwhelmed.
To be honest when I read this short story minutes ago I didn't understand what the meaning of all that, but when I read a review on that story I realized that I have a lot to learn.
That story is so short that it is actually one sentence...I highly recommend it to all the people who live this world :)
To be honest when I read this short story minutes ago I didn't understand what the meaning of all that, but when I read a review on that story I realized that I have a lot to learn.
That story is so short that it is actually one sentence...I highly recommend it to all the people who live this world :)
January 9, 2025
3.8/5
January 24, 2023
dalej mnie boli ta ocena dla mojego ukochanego kafki
July 5, 2023
This one is so short it's one complex sentence. If I was to translate and type it out it would be like a short review. I like it a lot, however. Such a short work and yet the ending had been totally unexpected and mind you, very absurd.
November 12, 2023
I THINK!
The horse is maybe a metaphor for a hard life/time/something else(that's prefixed 'hard').
If life is in a complete mess, we feel stuck, out of control and can't see the happiness.
And before it gets well, it ends.
Oh god!
This man just plotted the points.
The horse is maybe a metaphor for a hard life/time/something else(that's prefixed 'hard').
If life is in a complete mess, we feel stuck, out of control and can't see the happiness.
And before it gets well, it ends.
Oh god!
This man just plotted the points.
November 12, 2023
opisuje moje zycie
March 27, 2020
Lubię książki, które są "niewiadomo po co". Bo po co nam kilkunastostronicowa książeczka, w której jest jedno zdanie (Kafki) i minimalistyczne ilustracje do niego (Guridiego)? I choć to piękne zdanie, a rysunki są delikatne i opowiadają rozkoszną historyjkę, to wciąż trudno znaleźć racjonalne uzasadnienie dla jej nabycia. Ale jest we mnie pewien rodzaj książkowego snobizmu, nutka kolekcjonerstwa, która wszystkie takie grzechy wybacza.
Sen Kafki, który przypomina wydawnictwo Łajka w "Stać się Indianinem" to książka pozornie skierowana do dzieci, ale kto z nas nie chciałby w dowolnym momencie transformować się do bajek dzieciństwa? I kogo z nas stać, by dziecku kupić książkę, którą odkłada się na półkę po 10 minutach? Kalkulujecie to? Bo ja bym kalkulował, gdybym miał dziecko.
Piękna to rzecz, estetyczna i do głaskania. Ale pytanie - po co, poza snobizmem, psychofaństwem i szaleństwem prywatnym, komu to? No sami sobie musicie wymyślić racjonalizację.
Sen Kafki, który przypomina wydawnictwo Łajka w "Stać się Indianinem" to książka pozornie skierowana do dzieci, ale kto z nas nie chciałby w dowolnym momencie transformować się do bajek dzieciństwa? I kogo z nas stać, by dziecku kupić książkę, którą odkłada się na półkę po 10 minutach? Kalkulujecie to? Bo ja bym kalkulował, gdybym miał dziecko.
Piękna to rzecz, estetyczna i do głaskania. Ale pytanie - po co, poza snobizmem, psychofaństwem i szaleństwem prywatnym, komu to? No sami sobie musicie wymyślić racjonalizację.
February 12, 2023
What a powerful sentence incorporating the idea of how modern industrialized civilization has corrupted mankind leaving him with an innate wish to return to a time when man felt one with nature.
December 27, 2022
Mini książka, tuszu więcej poszło na ilustracje niż na słowa. Ładnie zrobiona.
November 12, 2023
bardzo mnie urzekło.
September 1, 2025
Apparently an unpopular opinion but this isn't one of his best ones
December 28, 2025
The wish, indeed
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