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Franz Kafka: (3 books) The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial
Franz Kakfa is a collection of the three masterpieces written by German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature.
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Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) fuses elements of realism and the fantastic in his works. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"), Der Process (The Trial), and Das Schloss (The Castle). The term Kafkaesque has entered the English language to describe situations like those found in his writing.
The collection
The MetamorphosisIn the Penal ColonyThe Trial
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Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) fuses elements of realism and the fantastic in his works. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"), Der Process (The Trial), and Das Schloss (The Castle). The term Kafkaesque has entered the English language to describe situations like those found in his writing.
The collection
The MetamorphosisIn the Penal ColonyThe Trial
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Published May 9, 2021
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About the author
Franz Kafka
3,114 books38.2k 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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October 30, 2024Uwierzycie, że jeszcze nie czytałam opowiadań Kafki?
To moje pierwsze, w szkole znałam je tylko z fragmentów.
I tak się mówi o tym że Kafka wielki jest i trochę się zastanawiałam z czego to może wynikać i wymyśliłam:
Chodzi chyba o to, że te opowiadania mogą być zinterpretowane na wiele różnych sposobów - ja sama czytając wymyśliłam już kilka. A kiedy czytałam różne opinie i recenzje w sieci to się okazało, że takich interpretacji może być zdecydowanie więcej.
Świetnie, że Wydawnictwo Officyna wydało te książkę w nowym tłumaczeniu Łukasza Musiała i w taki zestawie opowiadań, jakie wymyślił sobie sam autor.
Mamy tu Osąd, Przemienienie i Kolonię karną - wszystkie połączone tematem winy i kary, wszystkie z odrobiną absurdu i nierzeczywistości i wszystkim można przydać wiele różnych znaczeń.
Was zachęcam do czytania Kafki, ja mam jeszcze na półce Proces, będę czytać.
To moje pierwsze, w szkole znałam je tylko z fragmentów.
I tak się mówi o tym że Kafka wielki jest i trochę się zastanawiałam z czego to może wynikać i wymyśliłam:
Chodzi chyba o to, że te opowiadania mogą być zinterpretowane na wiele różnych sposobów - ja sama czytając wymyśliłam już kilka. A kiedy czytałam różne opinie i recenzje w sieci to się okazało, że takich interpretacji może być zdecydowanie więcej.
Świetnie, że Wydawnictwo Officyna wydało te książkę w nowym tłumaczeniu Łukasza Musiała i w taki zestawie opowiadań, jakie wymyślił sobie sam autor.
Mamy tu Osąd, Przemienienie i Kolonię karną - wszystkie połączone tematem winy i kary, wszystkie z odrobiną absurdu i nierzeczywistości i wszystkim można przydać wiele różnych znaczeń.
Was zachęcam do czytania Kafki, ja mam jeszcze na półce Proces, będę czytać.
June 1, 2025
jak ja kocham Kafkę jezu 10/10
October 2, 2024
4,5/5
November 18, 2025
CZYTAJCIE!!!
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August 21, 2025przemienienie 5/5
October 18, 2024
Trzy mistrzowskie opowiadania Franza Kafki w nowym tłumaczeniu Łukasza Musiała. Bardzo wyrafinowana lektura, przy której nawet uważny czytelnik może przeoczyć niuanse, które odsłaniają faktyczne emocje postaci, jak i symbolikę, którą Kafka się posłużył
February 17, 2025
Mocna lektura. "W kolonii karnej" inspiracją dla nowego projektu Cronenberga, ojca lub syna :) Body horror w czystej postaci. Warto posłuchać rozmowy z Łukaszem Musiałem o nowym tłumaczeniu tych opowiadań w Radiu Proza.
January 3, 2025
Fenomenalna przygoda. Wdzięczność za tę serię wyrażam ogromną.
January 15, 2025
4, 5, 3
March 7, 2025
Uhh, nobody told me I'll fall in love with Kafka after I'll read this 😬
July 6, 2025
-Każdy z głównych bohaterów jest uznawany lub sam się uznaje za winnego,co poprzedza osąd i kara
-Dla Kafki happy endy nie istnieją
-Dla Kafki happy endy nie istnieją
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