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"Die Vorüberlaufenden" ist ein kleines Prosastück von Franz Kafka, das im Rahmen des Sammelbandes Betrachtung 1912 veröffentlicht wurde. Es wurde bisher nur wenig interpretiert. Der Text entstand 1907 und wurde vorab in den Zeitschriften Hyperion und Bohemia veröffentlicht. Es ist eine Erinnerung an Baudelaires "A une passante" aus dem Gedichtzyklus "Les Fleurs du Mal" von 1857.
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First published January 1, 1912
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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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December 15, 2024
У цьому невеличкому, об'ємом всього у півсторінки записі - сутність всієї творчості, та щось там творчості, всього життя пана Кафки. Його погляд на той сучасний йому світ, який, на жаль, мало чим відрізняється від світу, який ми сьогодні бачимо перед собою. Франц Кафка зображує людей і всю цивілізацію як пасажирів поїзда, які зазнали аварії десь посередині тунелю, де вже не видно початку, але ще не видно кінця. Саме так можна описати всю історію людства. Кожного разу може здаватись що ось він, кінець, але насправді це черговий поворот, виток, який несе для суспільства Незвідане. Може здатись, що такий погляд загалом на ситуацію є песимістичним, але, дивлячись на той досвід, який людина вже має, чи не можна сказати, що в історії немає нічого оптимістичного і доброго? Чому ж тоді ми маємо вірити, що ось-ось, за певною примхою долі все зміниться. все налагодиться, все відразу стане приємним, безболісним і справедливим?
July 5, 2023
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✦"When we walk the streets at night and a man, already visible from afar - because the street in front of us climbs - runs into us, we shall not grab him, even if he's weak and in rugs, even if someone's chasing and yelling after him, we shall let him run further away."
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December 15, 2022i think about strangers all the time too
May 21, 2024
This is how my mind functions all the time
June 19, 2025
"unmolested"
December 28, 2025
Amusing and short, Kafka wasn’t a one-trick pony
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