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Sto caricando le informazioni... Metamorphosis and Other Stories (2007)di Franz Kafka
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 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. ( ) For the most part I still like Kafka's writing. I think he is a good writer, but not the best. Some stories like the title story "Metamorphosis" were the best in this collection. Then I found some others I didn't really care for or they went on a little too long. Some readers have said to me that Kafka was depressing, but I found most of his stuff comical in a witty sense or maybe what depresses others about Kafka doesn't depress me. I recommend Kafka to anyone, especially "Metamorphosis," but there are better short story writers out there. 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. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiContieneChildren on a Country Road di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) Unmasking a Confidence Trickster di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) The Sudden Walk di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) Resolutions di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) Excursion into the Mountains di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) Bachelor's Ill Luck di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) The Businessman di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) Absent minded window gazing di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) The Way Home di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) Passers-by di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) On the Tram di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) Clothes di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) The Rejection di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) The Street Window di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) The Wish to Be An Indian di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) The Trees [short story] di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) Unhappiness di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) The New Advocate di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) A Country Doctor [short story] di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) Up in the Gallery di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) An Old Manuscript di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) Before the Law [short story] di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) Jackals and Arabs [short story] di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) A Visit to the Mine di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) The Next Village di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) A Message From the Emperor (Short Story) di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) The Cares of a Family Man di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) Eleven Sons di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) A Fratricide [short story] di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) A Dream (Short Stories) di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) A Report to an Academy di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) First Sorrow di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) A Little Woman di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) A Hunger Artist [short story] di Franz Kafka (indirettamente) Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse People [short story] di Franz Kafka (indirettamente)
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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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