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Frugando negli interstizi del quotidiano, Kafka modella le sue parabole con brevi pennellate dai toni quasi espressionistici, che fanno emergere il non-senso sotto l'apparenza del senso, il problematico e il precario sotto la maschera della certezza e della stabilità, la corruzione sotto lo schermo della legge.
Il simbolismo kafkiano non è tale da poter essere letto in funzione di un contenuto particolare e i suoi racconti, come tutte le sue opere, vibrano di suggestive risonanze che toccano in profondità i problemi dell'esistenza come si presentano alla coscienza e agli istinti dell'uomo moderno.
Belli ma terribili. Consigliati a chi ha il cuore grosso!

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Franz Kafka -- July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924 Franz Kafka was born to middle-class Jewish parents in Prague, Czechoslovakia on July 3, 1883. He received a law degree at the University of Prague. After performing an obligatory year of unpaid service as law clerk for the civil and criminal courts, he obtained a position in the workman's compensation show more division of the Austrian government. Always neurotic, insecure, and filled with a sense of inadequacy, his writing is a search for personal fulfillment and understanding. He wrote very slowly and deliberately, publishing very little in his lifetime. At his death he asked a close friend to burn his remaining manuscripts, but the friend refused the request. Instead the friend arranged for publication Kafka's longer stories, which have since brought him worldwide fame and have influenced many contemporary writers. His works include The Metamorphosis, The Castle, The Trial, and Amerika. Kafka was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in August 1917. As his disease progressed, his throat became affected by the TB and he could not eat regularly because it was painful. He died from starvation in a sanatorium in Kierling, near Vienna, after admitting himself for treatment there on April 10, 1924. He died on June 3 at the age of 40. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Beschreibung eines Kampfes; Das urteil; Betrachtung; Die Verwandlung; Ein Landarzt; In der Strafkolonie

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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833.912Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesGerman fiction1900-1900-19901900-1945
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H7Social sciencesSocial sciences (General)

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