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The Franz Kafka Collection - cover

The Franz Kafka Collection

Sigmund Freud

Publisher: Blackmore Dennett

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Summary

Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer, 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 incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. The term Kafkaesque has entered the English language to describe situations like those in his writing.

The Franz Kafka Collection features:

Unhappiness
The Judgment
Before The Law
The Metamorphosis
A Report To An Academy
Jackals And Arabs
A Country Doctor
In The Penal Colony
A Hunger Artist
and
The Trial
Available since: 02/18/2019.

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