Kafka Franz

When people use the adjective 'Kafkaesque', it is The Trial they have in mind - the nightmarish world of Joseph K., where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and any help there may be comes from unexpected sources.K. is never told what he is on trial for, and when he says he is innocent, he is immediately asked 'innocent of...

This selection of Kafka's shorter prose writings includes one of the few works published during his lifetime: the harrowing story of Gregor Samsa's overnight transformation into a verminous insect, his record of the effect of this sudden metamorphosis on himself and the reaction of his family. It conveys with an unsettling mixture of subjective...

Kafka's final novel was written during 1922, when the tuberculosis that was to kill him was already at an advanced stage. Fragmentary and unfinished, it perhaps never could have been finished; perhaps the tensions between K., the Castle and the village, K.'s struggle for acceptance or recognition by the mysterious Castle authorities or by the...

Nigdy dotąd w Polsce niepublikowane listy Franza Kafki. Czy Kafka pisał wiersze? Czy był zakochany w innych kobietach oprócz Felicji i Mileny? Jakie książki czytał? Lubił chodzić do teatru? Co jadał? Jak znosił walkę z chorobą? I z kim dzielił się swymi przemyśleniami?Mniej lub bardziej zaskakujące odpowiedzi może przynieść lektura nigdy dotąd w...

Józef K., oskarżony bez podania zarzutów, to nie żaden skromny urzędnik ani człowiek bez winy - choć tak się zwykło czytać Proces. Siła, która niszczy karierę i życie ambitnego bankowca, to - także wbrew tradycyjnej lekturze - ani biurokracja, ani dyktatura. O co tu w takim razie chodzi?By znaleźć własną odpowiedź, trzeba i warto uważnie czytać...

Featuring an ordinary man who wakes up to find himself turned into a giant cockroach, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, is brought together here with the best of his short stories....