Der Proces - Softcover

Kafka, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3596903564 ISBN 13: 9783596903566

Publisher: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, 2011

Synopsis

¿Der Proceß¿ ist Franz Kafkas weltweit meistgelesener und bekanntester Roman - nicht zuletzt dank der kongenialen Verfilmung durch Orson Welles. In der Geschichte des Josef K., dem in einem ebenso absurden wie undurchsichtigen Verfahren der Prozess gemacht wird, zeigt der große Prager Schriftsteller seine ganze Erzählkunst. Je mehr K. seine ungenannte Schuld zu ergründen und sich zu verteidigen sucht, desto tiefer gerät er in die alptraumhaften Labyrinthe einer undurchschaubaren Gesetzesmaschinerie. Lakonisch im Ton, steigert sich der Text vom Grotesk-Komischen ins abgrundtief Tragische - ein literarisches Meisterwerk.

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About the Author

Franz Kafka was born to Jewish parents in Bohemia in 1883. Kafka s father was a luxury goods retailer who worked long hours and as a result never became close with his son. Kafka s relationship with his father greatly influenced his later writing and directly informed his Brief an den Vater (Letter to His Father). Kafka had a thorough education and was fluent in both German and Czech. As a young man, he was hired to work at an insurance company where he was quickly promoted despite his desire to devote his time to writing rather than insurance. Over the course of his life, Kafka wrote a great number of stories, letters, and essays, but burned the majority of his work before his death and requested that his friend Max Brod burn the rest. Brod, however, did not fulfill this request and published many of the works in the years following Kafka s death of tuberculosis in 1924. Thus, most of Kafka s works were published posthumously, and he did not live to see them recognized as some of the most important examples of literature of the twentieth century. Kafka s works are considered among the most significant pieces of existentialist writing, and he is remembered for his poignant depictions of internal conflicts with alienation and oppression. Some of Kafka s most famous works include The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3596903564
• ISBN 13: 9783596903566
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 272