The story of The Trial's publication is almost as fascinating as the novel itself. Kafka intended his parable of alienation in a mysterious bureaucracy to be burned, along with the rest of his diaries and manuscripts, after his death in 1924. Yet his friend Max Brod pressed forward to prepare The Trial and the rest of his papers for publication.
The story of The Trial's publication is almost as fascinating as the novel itself. Kafka intended his parable of alienation in a mysterious bureaucrac...
The story of The Trial's publication is almost as fascinating as the novel itself. Kafka intended his parable of alienation in a mysterious bureaucracy to be burned, along with the rest of his diaries and manuscripts, after his death in 1924. Yet his friend Max Brod pressed forward to prepare The Trial and the rest of his papers for publication.
The story of The Trial's publication is almost as fascinating as the novel itself. Kafka intended his parable of alienation in a mysterious bureaucrac...
Franz Kafka Guillermo Sanchez Trujillo Guillermo Sanchez Trujillo
For more than forty years, this novel remained a most absolute mystery until Letters to Felice was published in the early 1960s and it became known that the enigmatic F.B. in the Diaries, The Judgment and The Trial was Felice Bauer, an up-to-that-moment unknown Berliner who had been his girlfriend for five years and his fiancee twice. Felice Bauer's presence in The Trial made the enigma more complex because: What was Kafka's girl doing in the novel? About that time, Elias Canetti's book about the letters to Felice was published. Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice presented the...
For more than forty years, this novel remained a most absolute mystery until Letters to Felice was published in the early 1960s and it became known th...
THE TRIAL is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Kafka even went so far as to call Dostoevsky a blood relative. Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter which brings the story to an end. After Kafka's death in 1924 his friend and...
THE TRIAL is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested...
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been called one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world.
The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Gregor's transformation is never revealed,...
Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Translated by David Wyllie
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes tr...
