Proměna
Sugestivní fantaskní povídka, kdy se hlavní hrdina, jenž se odcizil sám sobě a smyslu svého života, proměnil v odporného brouka.
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The Burrow
A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fiction
Strange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. Some are less than a page long, others more substantial; all were unpublished in his lifetime. These matchless short works range from the gleeful miniature horror 'Little Fable' to the off-kilter humour of 'Investigations of a Dog', and from the elaborate waking nightmare of 'Building the Great Wall of China' to the creeping unease of 'The Burrow', where a nameless creature's labyrinthine hiding place turns into a trap of fear and paranoia.
Amerika
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 finished), can be read as a menacing allegory of modern life, it is also infused with a quite un-Kafkaesque blitheness and sunniness, brought to life in this lyrical translation that returns to the original manuscript of the book.
The Trial
A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him.
Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis—an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life—including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door—becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral.
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Metamorphosis and Other Stories
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself 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, and 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.
Letters to Milena
Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech, and their relationship quickly developed into a deep attachment. Such was his feeling for her that Kafka showed her his diaries and, in doing so, laid bare his heart and his conscience. While at times Milena's 'genius for living' gave Kafka new life, it ultimately exhausted him, and their relationship was to last little over two years. In 1924 Kafka died in a sanatorium near Vienna, and Milena died in 1944 at the hands of the Nazis, leaving these letters as a moving record of their relationship.
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A kastély
Franz Kafka egyik legsikeresebb műve, A kastély a Magvető Zsebkönyvtár sorozat hatodik köteteként jelenik meg.
Josef K., a kastély új földmérője megérkezik a faluba, hogy tovább folytathassa útját a kastély urához. Arra azonban soha nem gondolt volna, hogy ezzel élete legnagyobb megpróbáltatásának néz elébe - útját a kastélyhoz minduntalan akadályozza a falu népe, míg végül ő maga sem biztos benne, valóban várják-e odafönt. Vajon eléri-e célját? Az elidegenedés legnagyobb 20. századi írójának egyik legismertebb és legjobb könyve, A kastély Rónay György fordításában jelenik meg.
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) műveit valójában csak a halála után fedezte fel a művelt világ. Az igazi Kafka-reneszánsz főleg a II. világháború után érkezett el és tart mai napig. A kastélyról ezt írta Thomas Mann: "Utal az isteni és emberi állapot között meglévő áthidalhatatlan szakadékra, melyet csak mágikus humorral lehet érzékeltetni."
Investigations of a Dog
'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'
How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
A kastély
Franz Kafka egyik legsikeresebb műve, A kastély a Magvető Zsebkönyvtár sorozat hatodik köteteként jelenik meg. Josef K., a kastély új földmérője megérkezik a faluba, hogy tovább folytathassa útját a kastély urához. Arra azonban soha nem gondolt volna, hogy ezzel élete legnagyobb megpróbáltatásának néz elébe - útját a kastélyhoz minduntalan akadályozza a falu népe, míg végül ő maga sem biztos benne, valóban várják-e odafönt. Vajon eléri-e célját? Az elidegenedés legnagyobb 20. századi írójának egyik legismertebb és legjobb könyve, A kastély Rónay György fordításában jelenik meg. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) műveit valójában csak a halála után fedezte fel a művelt világ. Az igazi Kafka-reneszánsz főleg a II. világháború után érkezett el és tart mai napig. A kastélyról ezt írta Thomas Mann: „Utal az isteni és emberi állapot között meglévő áthidalhatatlan szakadékra, melyet csak mágikus humorral lehet érzékeltetni.”
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The Metamorphosis (Legend Classics)
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."
The Metamorphosis - the masterpiece of Franz Kafka - was first published in 1915 and is one of the seminal works of fiction of the twentieth century. The novel is cited as a key influence for many of today's leading authors; as Auden wrote: "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man".
Traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Gregor's transformation is never revealed, and as he attempts to adjust to his new condition he becomes a burden to his parents and sister, who are repelled by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor has become.
A harrowing, yet strangely comic, meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosishas taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction.
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Metamorphosis
A masterful mix of horror and absurdity which tells the story of travelling salesman Samsa, who wakes up one day to find out he has turned into a giant insect. Kafka's novella has been adapted for film and television a number of times, most recently for radio when BBC's Radio 4 broadcast the story, read by Benedict Cumberbatch, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its first publication.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Classics series brings together high-quality paperback editions of classics works, presented with contemporary graphic cover designs. Together they make a wonderful collection which is perfect for any home library.
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Rady a zlomyslnosti. Ze světa aforismu a epigramu
Audiokniha Rady a zlomyslnosti. Ze světa aforismu a epigramu. AFORISMUS je - jak praví slovník - "jadrná a stručná věta, jíž se vyslovuje nějaká myšlénka neb důležitá zásada." Z toho vyplývá, že aforistický sloh "libuje si ve stručných větách". Takže ten, kdo se snaží s aforismem jakýmkoliv způsobem zacházet, je chtěj nechtěj nucen shromažďovat jadrné a stručné věty a libovat si v nich. EPIGRAM, česky prostě nápis, "slove kratičká básnička, vyjadřující s duchaplnou pointou vážnou neb satirickou myšlénku výrazně úsečnou formou, se vztahem k určité věci neb osobě."
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Trial
A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life - including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door - becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral.
Das Schloß
Es schildert den vergeblichen Kampf des Landvermessers K. um Anerkennung seiner beruflichen und privaten Existenz durch ein geheimnisvolles Schloss und dessen Vertreter.
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Die Verwandlung
"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt." - So nüchtern beginnt Kafkas weltberühmte Erzählung über die unheimliche Verwandlung eines Menschen in einen riesigen Käfer. Unwirklichkeit und Realität vereinen sich in ihr und sind nicht mehr voneinander zu trennen.
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A Hunger Artist
A Hunger Artist explores many of the themes that were close to him: spiritual poverty, asceticism, futility, and the alienation of the modern artist.
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