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Het vonnis en andere verhalen

Franz Kafka (author), F. Oomes (translator)
Het literaire oeuvre van de Duits/Tsjechische schrijver Franz Kafka (1883-1934) bestaat voor het overgrote deel uit proza, variërend van romans als Amerika, Der Prozess en Das Schloss tot prozavertellingen van behoorlijke omvang en uiterst korte verhalen. In deze bundel zijn Kafka"s belangrijkste lange en korte verhalen verzameld. In Het vonnis gaat het om een haat-liefdeconflict tussen een vader
Title
Het vonnis en andere verhalen
Author
Franz Kafka
Translator
F. Oomes
Language
Dutch
Original language
German
Original title
Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen
Publisher
Utrecht: Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, [2008] | Other editions
ISBN
9789031501113 (paperback) 9027421838 (paperback)
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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

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