The whole town got involved with the hunger-artist; from day to day of his starving, people’s participation grew; everyone wanted to see the hunger-artist at least once a day; on the later days there were season-ticket holders who sat for days on end in front of his little cage Reading these stories by the master of the absurd is like entering a dreamworld in which nothing, and yet somehow everything, makes sense.

"Příběh, který píšu a který je arci fabulován tak, aby končil kdesi v nekonečnu, se jmenuje [...] Nezvěstný a odehrává se výlučně ve Spojených státech severoamerických", napsal Franz Kafka své milé Felici Bauerové. Fabulován tak, aby končil kdesi v nekonečnu, příběh Karla Roßmanna, kterého jeho rodiče vyhnali z české domoviny do Nového světa, když mu bylo šestnáct, arci byl: Na žádném ze svých tří románů nepracoval Kafka déle než na tomto, a přesto dílo zůstalo, stejně jako Proces a Zámek, torzem.  Obrovská města a krajinu v Americe znal pražský právník Franz Kafka pouze z představení kinematografů, z cestopisů a z vyprávění svého široce rozvětveného příbuzenstva. Příběh nezvěstného Karla Roßmanna není románem o emigraci. Jako v případě pánů K. z Procesu a ze Zámku je i tento příběh pádem. Nekonečným pádem do světa, ve kterém chybí půda pod nohama.

In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenska, was a gifter and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was uniquely able to recognize Kafka's complex genius and his even more complex character. For thirty-six-year-old Kafka, she was -a living fire, such as I have never seen.- It was to Milena that he revealed his most intimate self and, eventually, entrusted his diaries for safekeeping.

Kafka's gripping work of psychological horror, with a new introduction and notes by Carolin Duttlinger 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.

Franz Kafka's final novel tells the haunting tale of a man known only as K. and of his relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain entrance to the Castle. Although Kafka seemed to consider `The Castle` a failure, critics, in wrestling with its enigmatic meaning, have recognized it as one of the great novels of our century.Unfinished at Kafka's death in 1924, the manuscript of `The Castle` was edited for publication by Kafka's friend and literary executor, Max Brod. Both Brod's edition and the English-language translation of it that was prepared by Willa and Edwin Muir in 1930 have long been considered flawed.This new edition of Kafka's terrifying and comic masterpiece is the product of an international team of experts who went back to Kafka's original manuscript and notes to create an edition that is as close as possible to the way the author left it. The `Times Literary Supplement` hailed their work, saying that it will `decisively alter our understanding of Kafka and render previous editions obsolete.`Mark Harman's brilliant translation closely follows the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, revealing levels of comedy, energy, and visual power that have not been previously accessible toEnglish-language readers.W. H. Auden likened Kafka to Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe as the single most important writer of his age. Here, in this new edition, is a Kafka for the twenty-first century.

An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries — a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers'The writing glimmers with sensitivity, and openness to the world' - The Wall Street JournalDating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka’s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including accounts of daily events, assorted reflections and observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, records of dreams, and unrevised texts of stories. This volume makes available for the first time in English a comprehensive reconstruction of Kafka’s handwritten diary entries and provides substantial new content, restoring all the material omitted from previous publications — notably, names of people and undisguised details about them, a number of literary writings, and passages of a sexual nature, some of them with homoerotic overtones. By faithfully reproducing the diaries’ distinctive — and often surprisingly unpolished — writing as it appeared in Kafka’s notebooks, translator Ross Benjamin brings to light not only the author’s use of the diaries for literary invention and unsparing self-examination but also their value as a work of genius in and of themselves.

A superb new translation of Kafka’s classic stories, authoritatively annotated and beautifully illustrated. Selected Stories presents new, exquisite renderings of short works by one of the indisputable masters of the form. Award-winning translator and scholar Mark Harman offers the most sensitive English rendering yet of Franz Kafka’s unique German prose—terse, witty, laden with ambiguities and double meanings.With his in-depth biographical introduction and notes illuminating the stories and placing them in context, Harman breathes new life into masterpieces that have often been misunderstood. Included are sixteen stories, arranged chronologically to convey a sense of Kafka’s artistic development. Some, like “The Judgment,” “In the Penal Colony,” “A Hunger Artist,” and “The Transformation” (usually, though misleadingly, translated as “The Metamorphosis”), represent the pinnacle of Kafka’s achievement.Accompanying annotations highlight the wordplay and cultural allusions of the original German, pregnant with irony and humor that English readers have often missed. Although Kafka has frequently been cast as a loner, in part because of his quintessential depictions of modern alienation, he had a number of close companions. Harman draws on Kafka’s diaries, extensive correspondence, and engagement with early twentieth-century debates about Darwinism, psychoanalysis, and Zionism to construct a rich portrait of Kafka in his world.A work of both art and scholarship, Selected Stories transforms our understanding and appreciation of a singular imagination.

Doktore, nech mě umřít... Zlatá ulička během válečné zimy 1916/17: Kafka se na několik měsíců stahuje do ticha domku č. 22. Za světla petrolejové lampy píše básník děsivou vizi Venkovského lékaře. Je slyšet jen škrábání pera, když doktora stísněného obavami nechává za temné zimní noci vyjet k smrtelně nemocnému pacientovi. Čtrnáct drobných povídek souboru Venkovský lékař patří ke Kafkovým nejkrásnějším a nejvíce šokujícím dílům. V této knize vycházející z textace prvního vydání nejsou otištěny jenom Kafkovy brilantní povídky, kniha v novém českém překladu nabízí i příběh jejich vzniku a celosvětového ohlasu. Celkové hodnocení: mimořádné dílo, obzvláště stojí za přečtení.

Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and in this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as a long, tense and dramatic confession in which writer and man are gathered together in front of an ambivalent figure of authority, "Dearest Father" is a desperate attempt to retrace the origins of a turbulent and highly conflicted relationship between an unflinching parent and an extremely sensitive child. Both a merciless indictment of his father and an impassioned appeal to him, Kafka's inspired work is one of the most lucid and touching psychological documents of the twentieth century.

Vydavateľstvo MilaniuM si pripomenulo 100. výročie úmrtia jedného z najväčších spisovateľov 20. storočia Franza Kafku rozsiahlym výberom z jeho aforizmov, krátkych poviedok, čŕt a podobenstiev. Germanista a prekladateľ Milan Richter ponúka slovenským čitateľom zároveň aj originály textov v nemčine, kalendárium autorovho života a tvorby a doslov, v ktorom o Kafkových aforizmoch hovorí o. i. toto: „Aforizmy boli výsledkom sebaspytovania, sebaobviňovania i sebapodceňovania. (...) Boli to ,zbrane namierené’ proti nemu, hoci mu zároveň pomáhali prežiť úzkosti spôsobované ním samým. Kafka sa v nich s nesmiernou zaujatosťou púšťal do interpretácie hriechu, zla, kontrastu i podobnosti dobra a zla, pričom ani na milimeter neustupoval vo „veci dedičného hriechu“ od rigorózneho výkladu Biblie. (...) Podobné ,kruté rozkoše‘ pozorovania, rozjímania, váhania a rozhodovania sa na prahu, ktorý neslobodno prekročiť, viedli Kafku iste aj k napísaniu mnohých krátkych poviedok, skíc, etúd, bájok a podobenstiev. Stretávame sa v nich s autorovou osobnou situáciou, ktorá sa stala aj archetypom situácie človeka-jednotlivca v drviacom mlynskom kolese dejín 20. storočia. Situácie, kde človek sa jednostaj ocitá pred zavretou bránou do Zákona, pred intrigami brániacimi mu vstúpiť do Zámku,, situácie človeka väzneného, mučeného a ponižovaného za činy a hriechy, ktorých sa nedopustil.“

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Dílo, které po sobě Franz Kafka zanechal, není rozsahem nijak monumentální, přesto je Kafka považován za jednoho z nevýznamnějších světových autorů 20. století, jehož výrazové postupy ovlivnily poválečnou západoevropskou literaturu. Kromě Proměny, jedné z nejslavnějších povídek evropské literatury, jejíž význam byl v literární vědě interpretován více než stem různých způsobů, obsahuje tento výbor mrazivé podobenství o fanatismu V kárném táboře, mysteriózní horor Venkovský lékař, cyklus Umělec v hladovění, osudově existenciální povídku Ortel a drobné črty shrnuté do souboru Rozjímání.

Jedno z vrcholných děl spisovatele Franze Kafky zobrazuje bezmocný konflikt mezi člověkem a nepřístupnou mašinérií moci. Zeměměřič K. přijíždí do jakési vesnice, aby zde provedl geodetické práce. K samotnému zámku se však, ať se snaží sebevíc, nemůže žádným způsobem dostat. Místní lidé mu, zdá se, nevěří a mají z něho strach. K. se neustále pokouší navázat kontakt s úředníky zámku, ale marně. Román bývá interpretován jako střet člověka s byrokratickým aparátem, ale i nejrůznějšími jinými způsoby, například coby náboženské podobenství nebo metafora touhy po moci. Přitažlivost Zámku, tak jako jiných Kafkových děl, spočívá i v tom, že jednoznačný výklad nenabízí, ale podněcuje čtenáře k přemýšlení a vlastnímu výkladu.

An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries--a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers. Dating from 1909 to 1923, the handwritten diaries contain various kinds of writing: accounts of daily events, reflections, observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, accounts of dreams, as well as finished stories. This volume makes available for the first time in English a comprehensive reconstruction of the diary entries and provides substantial new content, including details, names, literary works, and passages of a sexual nature that were omitted from previous publications. By faithfully reproducing the diaries' distinctive--and often surprisingly unpolished--writing in Kafka's notebooks, translator Ross Benjamin brings to light not only the author's use of the diaries for literary experimentation and private self-expression, but also their value as a work of art in themselves.

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Život se může někdy změnit doslovně z minuty na minutu. Tento pocit musel asi mít i velmi slušný a spořádaný bankovní úředník Josef K. Místo kuchařky se snídaní do jeho pokoje vstoupil úplně cizí muž a z místnosti vedle uslyšel neznámé hlasy. Když se rozhodl s nečekanou situací něco udělat, uslyšel šokující slova. „Jste přece zatčen.“Proces je často označován za vrcholné dílo Franze Kafky. V tomto absurdním románu čtenář může prožít postupnou psychickou změnu člověka, který je drcen nemilosrdným soukolím státní mašinérie. Z dnešního pohledu vnímáme knihu nejen jako prorockou, ale i jednoznačně nadčasovou.

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Sugestivní fantaskní povídka, kdy se hlavní hrdina, jenž se odcizil sám sobě a smyslu svého života, proměnil v odporného brouka.

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. Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and never finished) is 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.

Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that he thought worthy of publication. 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.

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When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, and his parents and sister adapt to living with a grotesque bug, Gregor notices that their attitudes towards him are changing and he feels increasingly alienated. One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature, ‘The Metamorphosis' is accompanied in this volume by a selection of other classic tales and sketches by Kafka - such as ‘The Judgement', ‘In the Penal Colony' and ‘A Country Doctor' - all presented in a lively and meticulous new translation by Christopher Moncrieff.

When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, and his parents and sister adapt to living with a grotesque bug, Gregor notices that their attitudes towards him are changing and he feels increasingly alienated. One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature, ‘The Metamorphosis' is accompanied in this volume by a selection of other classic tales and sketches by Kafka - such as ‘The Judgement', ‘In the Penal Colony' and ‘A Country Doctor' - all presented in a lively and meticulous new translation by Christopher Moncrieff.

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L'officier mit la machine en route et, dans le silence qui s'instaurait, le condamné fut couché sous la herse. On détacha les chaînes et, a leur place, on fixa les sangles : il sembla tout d'abord que, pour le condamné, ce fut presque un soulagement. Et puis la herse descendit encore un peu plus bas, car l'homme était maigre. Quand les pointes le toucherent, un frisson parcourut sa peau... Avec " Le Soutier " premier chapitre d'Amerika, et La Métamorphose, ce recueil de nouvelles constitue l'essentiel de l'ouvre qu'a voulu produire et publier Kafka. C'est donc la-dessus d'abord et surtout, si du moins c'est a l'écrivain qu'on s'intéresse, qu'il convient de le juger.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.' Featuring an ordinary man who wakes up to find himself turned into a giant cockroach, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, is brought together here with the best of his short stories. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

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When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, "The Metamorphosis." It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequecy, guilt, and isolation, "The Metamorphosis" has taken its place as one of the mosst widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

A collection of all Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches, to longer, complete tales. Together, they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the depth of his thought. Some, like "The Metamorphosis" and "The Judgement", are well-known; others are mere jottings.

These stories cover the whole span of Kafka's writing career, from "Looking to See" written in his twenties, to his last work, "Josephine", and culminating in "The Metamorphosis"

The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. "An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic.” -The New York Times The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the classic tales such as "The Metamorphosis,” "In the Penal Colony,” and "A Hunger Artist” to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, released after Kafka's death. With the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka's narrative work is included in this volume. "[Kafka] spoke for millions in their new unease; a century after his birth, he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern man's cosmic predicament.” -from the Foreword by John Updike

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