در برابر قانون

by Franz Kafka, ساجده آنت (Translator)

Genres: Short Stories

10 pages, ebook

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 His major novels The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika were left unfinished and unpublished during his lifetime.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

[Zohre · Rating 5 out of 5]

نگهبان به مرد که در حال مرگ بود گفت: اینجا، هیچ کس دیگری نمی توانست اجازه ورود بگیرد. چرا که این ورودی تنها برای تو ساخته شده بود و من اکنون می روم و این در را برای همیشه می بندم.
این خود مرد بود که این نگهبان و در ورود به قانون را در ذهنش ساخته بود و نمی توانست از آن ها عبور کند و ترس مانع عبورش شده بود. مرد به جای استفاده از فرصت تصمیم گرفته بود با ترسش همراه شود و هر چه دارد برای جلب رضایت نگهبان خرج کند! نگهبان، مرد را از اینکه قانون پر از درهای اینچنین است مدام می ترساند که در اواخر پیرمرد حتی دیگر یادش نمی آمد به جز در روبرویش درهای دیگری هم وجود دارد.

[Nasrin M · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5

[Bahman Bahman · Rating 3 out of 5]

"مرد فکر می‌کند و می‌پرسد: آیا کمی بعد راهش خواهد داد؟ دربان می‌گوید ممکن است. اما حالا نمی‌شود. چون در تالار قانون مثل همیشه باز است و دربان هم کنار می‌رود، مرد خم می‌شود تا از در ورودی داخل را دید بزند. دربان که چنین می‌بیند، می‌خندد و می‌گوید: اگر وسوسه ورود در تو آنقدر قوی است، سعی کن بی‌رخصت من داخل شوی..."

[Naghme · Rating 3 out of 5]

اینجا، هیچ‌کس دیگری نمی‌توانست اجازه‌ی ورود بگیرد. چرا که این ورودی تنها برای تو ساخته شده بود و من اکنون می‌روم و این در را برای همیشه می‌بندم.

[Farimah Mahmoodi · Rating 2 out of 5]

ترجمه افتضاح!

[Ryan Zandi · Rating 4 out of 5]

حق گرفتنیست، نباید در انتظارش نشست.

[Aida · Rating 3 out of 5]

پایان: ۱۴۰۴/۴/۶
خب نفهمیدم‌ش.
منظورم اینکه نفهمیدم نویسنده چه چیزی رو میخواد بگه و قصد داره چه پیامی رو به من برسونه.

[Maryam · Rating 4 out of 5]

منظور از قانون همون باورها و قواعد محدود کنندس ، حاضر نیستیم ازش بگذریم ذهن ما محدودکنندس و ممکن همه عمر یک خط طی کنیم چون همیشه مارو میترسونه از تغغییر و شناخت راهای دیگ برای زندگی...
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[Lunacy · Rating 5 out of 5]

در برابر قانون، داستانی درباره آدمها و محدودیت های نانوشته‌ایه که برای خودشون درست کردن‌. محدودیت‌هایی که واقعی نیستن اما فرد رو از پیشرفت کردن و قدم برداشتن رو به جلو باز میدارند. محدودهای آدم‌ها شاید باهم متفاوت باشند اما همشون یه وجه مشترک دارند، و اون اینکه هیچ کدوم از این قوانین چیزی جز توهم ذهنی خودمون نیست که مارو محدود کرده. کسی جز خودمون جلومون رو نگرفته، هیچکس.

[Zahra · Rating 2 out of 5]

یک داستان خیلی کوتاه و جذاب از فرانتس کافکا. دوست داری بخونی تا ببینی بالاخره تهش چی میشه. خیلی هم نمادین نوشته شده بود به نظرم. پیامش هم این بود: «ترس برادر مرگه»

در برابر قانون رو از طاقچه بخونید:
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[Raha · Rating 4 out of 5]

وااااقعااا کیف کردم...توی یکی دو صفحه چنان حرف هایی زده کافکا که آدم متحر این انسان میمونه

[A · Rating 1 out of 5]

به نظر من مایه‌های پررنگی از نهیلیسم و پوچگرایی و شاید جبرگرایی بر داستان حاکم بود. قانون احتمالا همان حیات دنیوی است.

[Koala · Rating 5 out of 5]

خیلی خیلی خیلی پیشنهادش میکنم.
آثار کافکا کلا برای من خیلی جذابه.
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