Willa Muir Knihy

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.

Franz Kafka's enigmatic, deadpan, and deeply pessimistic stories are central to literary modernism. In 'The Metamorphosis', the estrangement of everyday life becomes corporealized when Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant bug and wonders how he is going to get to work on time. Kafka inverts the implied degradation of a man's transformation into an animal in 'A Report of the Academy', an ape's address to a group of scientists.

This volume is a celebration of the life and work of Willa Muir.

Slavný román pražského rodáka doplněný o fragmenty, škrty a varianty. Šestý svazek díla Franze Kafky.

Dejová línia prózy udržiava čitateľa v neustálom napätí a neistote. Veď akoby ste sa cítili, keby vás, tak ako protagonistu Jozefa K., v jedno ráno zobudili neznámi muži a odviedli nasledujúci deň na výsluch? V prípade Jozefa K. však nejde o nijaký žart, stáva sa súčasťou súdneho procesu, v ktorom figuruje ako obvinený.