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 doo...

‘Weer een dag zonder brief,’ verzucht Kafka in een brief aan Milena Pollak van 7 augustus 1920 – waarmee hij maar duidelijk wilde maken dat er in ieder geval elke dag één brief van haar hoorde te komen. En dat hij er haar minstens één moest schrijven. Liefst meer.Franz Kafka werd in 1883 in Praag geboren en groeide op in de Duitstalige Joodse gemeenschap in die stad. Hij overleed in Kierling, in 1924. Hij schreef veel en graag, aan vrienden (Max Brod), geliefden (Felice, Milena), fa...

Franz Kafka is de meester van het literaire fragment. De prozawerken die Kafka als voltooid beschouwde, beslaan nog geen tiende van zijn oeuvre. Door hem zijn we ons gaan beseffen dat er zoiets bestaat als een meesterlijk fragment.

In het labyrint is samengesteld uit de omvangrijke Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente van Kafka, waarin letterlijk alle niet officieel gepubliceerde teksten zijn verzameld die hij heeft nagelaten. Deze selectie probeert in de eerste plaats toegankelijk te zijn; ...

MetamorphosisThe Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world.

The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Samsa's transformation...

Franz Kafka was a German-language writer of novels and short stories, regarded by critics as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Most of his works, such as ''Die Verwandlung'' (''The Metamorphosis''), Der Prozess (The Trial), and Das Schloss (The Castle), are filled with the themes and archetypes of alienation, physical and psychological brutality, parent–child conflict, characters on a terrifying quest, labyrinths of bureaucracy, and mystical transformations. ''In the ...

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 - 3 June 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehen-sible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted

as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known work...

A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann. 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. It includes Contemplation, a collection of his earlier short studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America; a...