Erzahlungen (Von) Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht (Und) Heinrich Boll: Kafka Brecht Boll

by Franz Kafka

Book Overview

Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) fue un escritor checo de idioma alem n m s influyente de la literatura universal en el ltimo siglo. Fue autor de tres novelas (El proceso, El castillo y Am rica), una novela... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393099377
• ISBN13: 9780393099379
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

compelling: there is something about this story

I have never been able to determine what it is about this story that I find so compelling. I don't have a defeated and alienated outlook, but still I relate to Gregor. More than that, I feel compassion for him. It's such a deeply sad story, and it says so much about the way people can objectify others. His family really uses him for their own selfish comfort, rather than truly loving him for who he is. For some strange reason, though, I find some hope in the story. By telling it, Kafka tells us that people should not be treated this way, or should not be made to feel unloved or insignificant. As with most moral fiction, the story is negative, I believe, for the purpose of effecting change. We don't have to treat others badly, and we don't have to allow ourselves to become alienated and neglected. By recognizing the pain, we can attempt to change this dynamic.Perhaps I'm too optimistic for the spirit of the story, but that's what I see. I've taught this story to my students, and some of them get that, while others find the story annoying. Still, I continue to be compelled to read it and to teach it again.

Ever feel alienated?

This story is one of pure genius. Upon reading the first paragraph I was baffled. The story is pure: it begins with a climax, one it takes a few pages to believe. None of us have ever been exactly in Gregor's position, but everyone can identify with his struggle. Well-written and poignant, this short story deserves a go by everyone. Begin and end the piece with an open mind.

Wow. I haven't read the other stories yet but...

the Metamophosis is INCREDIBLE. It is one of the greatest stories I have ever read. I found it extremely disturbing, especially the ending. After I finished, I was kept awake for an hour or two in bed just thinking about it. A MUST for any reader.

Bewilderingly blunt and terrifying. Sizzling in frustration.

Kafka presents to the reader a shockingly horrific account of a man, subservient to his aging parents' financial needs, awakening one morning to find himself a bug. Readers are awestruck by his response to this, as Gregor's immediate thoughts shift to fear of missing the train and the "five or six years of debts" he must pay to his employer on behalf of his parents. Struggling with such "arbitrary confusion", Gregor's journey through several months of living with his disastrous calamity is horrific to his audience in it's disgusting truth in the thrill of the routine and thus we see that this metamorphosis is really strictly a physical one, as Gregor has always been an "insect" and object of income to the household. Splendidly executed, Kafka provokes otherwise dormant sentiments of passiveness and futility in his reader and ultimately elicits bewildering feelings of helplessly gradual servility and suppression in one's environment.