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Bezig met laden... Franz Kafka Metamorphosis and Other (Penguin Modern Classics) /anglais (origineel 2007; editie 2020)door Kakfa Franz (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkMetamorphosis and Other Stories door Franz Kafka (2007)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Some of these are effective stories. Some seem to be just turning up the volume on socially awkward situations until they seem to take on some sort of metaphysical significance, but I'm not really buying that. The more baffling stories pretty much erase themselves from my memory a few minutes after I finish them. ( ) There's something remarkable about holding the entire output that an author published during his lifetime in one normal length book. Of course much of Franz Kafka's reputation rests on the three novels that were published after his death and against his explicit instructions. There's also something depressing about this particular volume, and I'm not talking about the stories, many of which are really quite comic. What is depressing is that the stories are arranged chronologically and for the most part they keep getting better and better. Until Kafka's relatively short life ended. Particularly striking is The Stoker, Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, some of the stories in the collection A Country Doctor, and then the stories in the collection A Hunger Artist, particularly the title story, First Sorrow, and Josefine, the Singer, or The Mouse People. Other than Metamorphosis they were all new to me and the precise attention to odd details that have an internal logic but do not correspond to any world we actually know, the strange predicaments of the characters, the precise psychological characterization of alternative viewpoints, all added up to something that really is quite amazing. I have a great deal of admiration for The Trial, but I had never read Kafka's other work. The Metamorphosis lives up to the hype and is a 5 star option for sure. It is poignant, funny, heartbreaking, honest and creepy all at the same time. Its literary genius leads me to give the collection 4 stars, but I will say the rest of what is here really weighs things down. Much of the content is fragments, which I found irritating. For me reading a disembodied paragraph is not like looking at a fragment from a sculpture, or looking at studies for a painting in that it tells me almost nothing about the whole work. The completed stories where fine, but none came close to the stunning work in The Trial and The Metamorphosis. So I guess what I am saying is skip the collection and just get The Metamorphosis on its own. There's something remarkable about holding the entire output that an author published during his lifetime in one normal length book. Of course much of Franz Kafka's reputation rests on the three novels that were published after his death and against his explicit instructions. There's also something depressing about this particular volume, and I'm not talking about the stories, many of which are really quite comic. What is depressing is that the stories are arranged chronologically and for the most part they keep getting better and better. Until Kafka's relatively short life ended. Particularly striking is The Stoker, Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, some of the stories in the collection A Country Doctor, and then the stories in the collection A Hunger Artist, particularly the title story, First Sorrow, and Josefine, the Singer, or The Mouse People. Other than Metamorphosis they were all new to me and the precise attention to odd details that have an internal logic but do not correspond to any world we actually know, the strange predicaments of the characters, the precise psychological characterization of alternative viewpoints, all added up to something that really is quite amazing. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)BevatContemplation door Franz Kafka The Stoker door Franz Kafka Great Noise door Franz Kafka Children on a Country Road door Franz Kafka (indirect) Unmasking a Confidence Trickster door Franz Kafka (indirect) The Sudden Walk door Franz Kafka (indirect) Resolutions door Franz Kafka (indirect) Excursion into the Mountains door Franz Kafka (indirect) Bachelor's Ill Luck door Franz Kafka (indirect) The Businessman door Franz Kafka (indirect) Absent minded window gazing door Franz Kafka (indirect) The Way Home door Franz Kafka (indirect) Passers-by door Franz Kafka (indirect) On the Tram door Franz Kafka (indirect) Clothes door Franz Kafka (indirect) The Rejection door Franz Kafka (indirect) Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys door Franz Kafka (indirect) The Street Window door Franz Kafka (indirect) The Wish to Be An Indian door Franz Kafka (indirect) The Trees [short story] door Franz Kafka (indirect) Unhappiness door Franz Kafka (indirect) The New Advocate door Franz Kafka (indirect) A Country Doctor [short story] door Franz Kafka (indirect) Up in the Gallery door Franz Kafka (indirect) An Old Manuscript door Franz Kafka (indirect) Before the Law [short story] door Franz Kafka (indirect) Jackals and Arabs [short story] door Franz Kafka (indirect) A Visit to the Mine door Franz Kafka (indirect) The Next Village door Franz Kafka (indirect) A Message From the Emperor [short story] door Franz Kafka (indirect) The Cares of a Family Man door Franz Kafka (indirect) Eleven Sons door Franz Kafka (indirect) A Fratricide [short story] door Franz Kafka (indirect) A Dream (Short Stories) door Franz Kafka (indirect) A Report to an Academy door Franz Kafka (indirect) First Sorrow door Franz Kafka (indirect) A Little Woman door Franz Kafka (indirect) Een Hongerkunstenaar door Franz Kafka (indirect) Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse People [short story] door Franz Kafka (indirect)
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)833.912Literature German and related languages German fiction Modern period (1900-) 1900-1990 1900-1945LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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