Edwin Muir bol orknejský básnik, prozaik a prekladateľ, ktorý spolu so svojou manželkou Willou Andersonovou významne prispel k sprístupneniu diela Franza Kafku v anglickom jazyku. Muir vo svojej tvorbe skúmal komplexné vnútorné svety, často sa venoval témam identity a pamäti. Jeho rozsiahle básnické a prozaické dielo, zahŕňajúce viaceré zbierky poézie a romány, predstavuje hlboké ponorenie sa do ľudskej skúsenosti. Muírov štýl je charakteristický introspektívnou povahou a meditatívnym tónom, ktorý čitateľom ponúka jedinečný pohľad na existenciálne otázky.
This collection brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he 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, 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.
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.
Offering insights for aspiring writers, this guide focuses on the art of novel construction by a renowned Scottish poet. It emphasizes the importance of classic literature, particularly those from the early 1900s, which are becoming rare and costly. Hesperides Press aims to make these timeless works accessible again through affordable, high-quality modern editions that preserve the original text and illustrations.
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.
Presents four different accounts of what it was to be young and growing up in
Glasgow and the west of Scotland, from the 1930s to the 1960s. This title
tells a story of how its young protagonist eventually succumbs to a culture of
drink and violence where the harshness of life on the land sits next to
industrial sprawl. schovat popis
'When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.'With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the fantastical, Kafka thus begins his most famous short story, The Metamorphosis. A commercial traveller is unexpectedly freed from his dreary job by his inexplicable transformation into an insect, which drastically alters his relationship with his family. Kafka considered publishing it with two of the stories included here in a volume to be called Punishments. The Judgement also concerns family tensions, when a power struggle between father and son ends with the father passing an enigmatic judgement on the helpless son. The third story, In the Penal Colony, explores questions of power, justice, punishment, and the meaning of pain in a colonial setting. These three stories are flanked by two very different works. Meditation, the first book Kafka published, consists of light, whimsical, often poignant mood-pictures, while in the autobiographical Letter to his Father, Kafka analyses his difficult relationship in forensic and devastating detail. For the 125th anniversary of Kafka's birth comes an astonishing new translation of his best-known stories, in a spectacular graphic package.Table of contents: MeditationThe JudgementThe MetamorphosisIn the Penal Colony(Autobiographical) Letter to his Father
Born on the Orkney island of Wyre in 1887, Edwin Muir settled in various parts
of Europe during the first half of the twentieth century - from Glasgow, to
Austria and Czechoslovakia throughout to 1920s, 1930s and again after the war.
Obraz modernej doby videný očami dospievajúceho chlapca je strhujúcim dielom, v ktorom Franz Kafka brilantnou umeleckou formou rozvinul pocit ohrozenia obyčajného človeka odľudštenými spoločenskými vzťahmi. Obavy a úzkosť z modernej doby sú v jeho podaní rovnako aktuálne ako v čase vzniku románu. Cez pološero dlhých tieňov a rôznych interpretácií presvitá autor, ktorý dokázal s humorom hľadieť do tváre formujúceho sa nového sveta. Kafka bol výnimočným pozorovateľom, ale aj majstrom grotesky, aranžovania a predvádzania situácií, ktoré bez zbytočného psychologizovania mieria priamo do srdca príbehu.
Vydanie: 1. slovenské vyd.
Z nemeckého originálu preložila Perla Bžochová
Esej "Kastrující stín svatého Garty" napísal Milan Kundera
