امرأة صغيرة

by Franz Kafka, فرانز كافكا, يوسف نبيل (Translator)

إن أبطال كافكا في كثير من أعماله يسيطر عليهم التردد، وكثيرًا ما لا يعرفون إلى أين هم ذاهبون أو ماذا يجب عليهم أن يفعلوا. من ناحية أخرى دائمًا ما نجد جهود الأبطال في البحث عن الحل من خلال التواكل على سلطة ما تُتوج بالفشل الدائم. ويتطور الأمر إلى عدم معرفة أبسط تفاصيل الحياة، فاللغز الذي يواجه الأبطال لايتعلق دائمًا بقضايا ضخمة ظاهريًا، بل يتعلق دائمًا بالتباين الشديد بين قدرات البطل أو الإنسان عامة، وبين المشكلة التي غالبًا ما تشير إلى الحياة برمتها.
إن قدرة كافكا على التجريب والتكثيف والتنوع مذهلة، وهذه المجموعة رغم بساطتها فهي شديدة الأهمية ليطلع القاريء العربي على تجارب كافكاوية تحوي قدرًا من التجريب والتكثيف الشديد.

197 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2017

About the author

Franz 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 His major novels The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika were left unfinished and unpublished during his lifetime.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.

Reviews

[Harith Alrashid · Rating 2 out of 5]

كافكا روائيا افضل من كافكا في القصص القصيرة بكثير

[Foz ☀️ · Rating 2 out of 5]

"ربما أفضل وسيلة هي أن تواجه كافة الأمور بسلبية .. أن تجعل من نفسك جثة هامدة"
الكتاب هو عبارة عن بعض القصص القصيرة لكافكا وكالعادة فهمها وتفسيرها يُعتبر لغز مع العلم أن بعض الصفحات مفقودة لبعض قصص كافكا، ترجمة يوسف نبيل تكللت بالنجاح لله الحمد.

[Samar Abo · Rating 2 out of 5]

أول مره أقرأ للكاتب ... احسست بالفعل ان القصص فيها رمزيه و من الممكن فهمها باكتر من معنى كما أشار المترجم فالبدايه.
بعض القصص كانت مفهومه بالنسبه لى لكن الاكثريه وجدت صعب فهم الهدف منها.
أسلوب الكاتب تجده سهل وفى نفس الوقت تجده يصف الفوضى حركات و اصوات و زحام!

أعتقد أنى أحتاج أن أقرأ عمل آخر للكاتب قبل ان أقررمتابعه اعمال أخرى له.

[Waad · Rating 1 out of 5]

اما ان تكون الترجمه ظلمتها او انها ليست قصص جيده