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Kafka Franz

• Herausgeber: Pulp the Classics
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Change really BUGGED him! Poor old Gregor. One day he's depressed about his dreary travelling salesman gig, the next, he's roaching around the apartment and disgusting his family. All that's left is creeping the walls and eating garbage. How's his sis ever going to find a sugar daddy with her grotty bro in tow?

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METAMORPHOSIS

Change really BUGGED him!

Poor old Gregor. One day he’s depressed about his dreary travelling salesman gig, the next, he’s roaching around the apartment and disgusting his family. All that’s left is creeping the walls and eating garbage. How’s his sis ever going to find a sugar daddy with her grotty bro in tow?

About the Author

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was aGerman-languagewriter of novelsand short stories, regarded by critics as one of the most influentialauthors of the 20th century. Most of his works, such asDie Verwandlung(The Metamorphosis),Der Process(The Trial), andDas Schloss(The Castle), are filled with the themes and archetypes of alienation, physical and psychological brutality, parent–child conflict, characters on a terrifying quest, labyrinths of bureaucracy, and mystical transformations.

Kafka was born into a middle-class, German-speakingJewishfamily inPrague, the capital of theKingdom of Bohemia, then part of theAustro-Hungarian Empire. In his lifetime, most of the population of Prague spoke Czech, and the division betweenCzech- andGerman-speaking people was a tangible reality, as both groups were strengthening theirnational identity. The Jewish community often found itself in between the two sentiments, naturally raising questions about a place to which one belongs. Kafka himself was fluent in both languages, considering German his mother tongue.

Kafka trained as a lawyer and after completing his legal education, obtained employment with an insurance company. He began to write short stories in his spare time. For the rest of his life, he complained about the little time he had to devote to what he came to regard as his calling. He regretted having to devote so much attention to hisBrotberuf(“day job”, literally “bread job”). Kafka preferred to communicate by letter; he wrote hundreds of letters to family and close female friends, includinghis father, his fiancéeFelice Bauer, and his youngest sisterOttla. He had a complicated and troubled relationship with his father that had a major effect on his writing. He also suffered conflict over being Jewish, feeling that it had little to do with him, although critics argue that it influenced his writing.

Only a few of Kafka’s works were published during his lifetime: the story collectionsBetrachtung(Contemplation) andEin Landarzt(A Country Doctor), and individual stories (such as “Die Verwandlung”) in literary magazines. He prepared the story collectionEin Hungerkünstler(A Hunger Artist) for print, but it was not published until after his death. Kafka’s unfinished works, including his novelsDer Process,Das SchlossandAmerika(also known asDer Verschollene,The Man Who Disappeared), were published posthumously, mostly by his friendMax Brod, who ignored Kafka’s wish to have the manuscripts destroyed.Albert Camus,Gabriel García MárquezandJean-Paul Sartreare among the writers influenced by Kafka’s work; the termKafkaesquehas entered the English language to describe existential situations like those in his writing.

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One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place. His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.

‘What’s happened to me?’ he thought. It was no dream. His room, a proper room for a human being, only somewhat too small, lay quietly between the four well-known walls. Above the table, on which an unpacked collection of sample cloth goods was spread out – Samsa was a travelling salesman – hung the picture which he had cut out of an illustrated magazine a little while ago and set in a pretty gilt frame. It was a picture of a woman with a fur hat and a fur boa. She sat erect there, lifting up in the direction of the viewer a solid fur muff into which her entire forearm had disappeared.