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Franz Kafka

* July 3, 1883 - † June 3, 1924 in Austria
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Przemiana – opowiadanie Franza Kafki napisane pomiędzy 17 listopada a 7 grudnia 1912. Bohaterem utworu jest Gregor Samsa, który pewnego dnia budzi się przemieniony w dużego, potwornego robaka. Chce żyć normalnie. Niestety to niemożliwe, gdyż nie jest nawet w stanie podnieść się z łóżka. Traci pracę. Rodzina trzyma go …

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Proces – surrealistyczna powieść Franza Kafki. Pisarz rozpoczął pracę nad nią w roku 1914. Została wydana pośmiertnie, wbrew woli autora, przez jego przyjaciela Maxa Broda w roku 1925. Pierwsze polskie wydanie ukazało się w 1936 w tłumaczeniu Józefiny Szelińskiej. W 2008 opublikowano nowy przekład autorstwa Jakuba …

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Zamek to jeden z najbardziej tajemniczych utworów Franza Kafki. Powieść ta jest ostatnią częścią tzw. Trylogii samotności. Prace nad nią Kafka rozpoczął w 1922 roku, ale dzieło to, podobnie jak Ameryka i Proces, nie zostało dokończone. Treść ostatniego rozdziału Kafka przekazał podobno Maxowi Brodowi, ale chyba nigdy …

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Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent. Although Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and never …

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Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial …

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This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father's opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered.

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"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, revised in November 1918, and first published in October 1919. The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. Internal clues and the setting on an island suggest Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden as an influence. As in some of …

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Franz Kafka's Diaries, written in German language between 1910-1923, include casual observations, details of daily life, reflections on philosophical ideas, accounts of dreams, and ideas for stories. Kafka’s diaries offer a detailed view of the writer's thoughts and feelings, as well as some of his most famous and …

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The Great Wall of China is the first posthumous collection of short stories by Franz Kafka published in Germany in 1931. It was edited by Max Brod and Hans Joachim Schoeps and collected previously unpublished short stories, incomplete stories, fragments and aphorisms written by Kafka between 1917 and 1924. The first …