Franz Kafka - Franz Kafka

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Résumé :
This collection has Kafka's more than fifty best short stories. This is the most comprehensive and recent translation of Franz Kafka's stories. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real. Few Stories which are part of this collections are; Children On A Country Road, The Tress, Clothes, The Way Home, On The Tram, A Dream, Up In The Gallary, Jackals and Arabs, Eleven Sons, At Night, The Problem Of Our Laws, The Test, The Vulture, The Married Couple, Postscript.

Biographie:
Franz Kafka ? considerado um dos escritores mais importantes do s?culo XX. Nasceu em Praga, Imp?rio Austro- H?ngaro (Rep?blica Tcheca) em 3 de julho de 1883 e faleceu em Klosterneuburg (?ustria) em 3 de junho de 1924. De fam?lia judaica, escreveu seus textos em alem?o. Agress?o f?sica e psicol?gica, conflitos familiares, momentos aterrorizantes e labirintos burocr?ticos s?o caracter?sticas das obras de Kafka. Essas marcas deram origem ao termo kafkiano

Sommaire:
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) A German-speaking insurance clerk, Franz Kafka preferred to spend his time writing. One of the most important writers of the Modernist period, Kafka's writings went against the conventions of his time. His works are notable for the aspects of the absurd, the surreal, and the fantastic. Although he incorporates elements of realism in his writing, many of his texts and protagonists engage with the loss of all coherent structures and meanings. It is common for the character to come across as an alienated individual, almost shunned from society. Over the years, his writing style has developed an identity of its own and is, today, widely known as 'Kafkaesque'. Kafka never intended to publish his works. In fact, he had ordered his friend to burn all of his unpublished works after his death. However, his friend published these works posthumously. Kafka's best-known works include The Trial, Metamorphosis, and The Castle. Kafka's works, more often than not, show a bleak and hopeless world where a just society and governance is more a matter of imagination than reality. He compels his readers to question the monotony of the systems around them, and the structures of authority....