De gedaanteverwisseling en andere verhalen

Franz Kafka (author), Willem van Toorn (translator)
`De gedaanteverwisseling , `In de strafkolonie , `Een hongerkunstenaar , `De stoker en alle andere door Kafka zelf in het licht gegeven verhalen vertonen die wereld waarin we dromen en waken tegelijk, allebei op volle kracht, die kafkaiaanse wereld die voor andere schrijvers onbereikbaar is, maar waar de lezers zich meteen thuis voelen, en tegelijk juist niet, en ook dat allebei op volle kracht <
Title
De gedaanteverwisseling en andere verhalen
Author
Franz Kafka
Translator
Willem van Toorn 1935-
Language
Dutch
Original language
German
Original title
Drucke zu Lebzeiten
Publisher
Amsterdam: Athenaeum, 2014
1 digitaal bestand
ISBN
9789025304232

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About Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer based in Prague, who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the novella The Metamorphosis and novels The Trial and The Castle. The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe absurd situations like those depicted in his writing.

Kafka was born into a middle-class German-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today the capital of the Czech Republic). He trained as a lawyer, an…Read more on Wikipedia