Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (1883.–1924.) bio je praški pisac židovskog podrijetla, koji je stvarao na njemačkom jeziku i smatra se jednim od najutjecajnijih autora 20. stoljeća. Rođen je u Pragu, tada dijelu Austro-Ugarske Monarhije. Studirao je pravo i radio u osiguravajućem društvu, no pisanje je bilo njegova prava strast, iako je za života objavio samo manji dio svog opusa.
Kafkina djela obilježavaju teme otuđenja, birokracije, tjeskobe i bespomoćnosti pojedinca u svijetu bez jasnog smisla ili pravde. Najpoznatija su mu djela Preobrazba, novela o čovjeku koji se budi pretvoren u kukca, te romani Proces i Dvorac, koji prikazuju pojedinca suočenog s apsurdnim, neprobojnim sustavima moći.
Njegov stil karakteriziraju preciznost izraza, tjeskobna atmosfera i simbolika, što je kasnije dovelo do pojma „kafkijanski“, koji označava situacije bez izlaza i racionalnog objašnjenja. Kafka je bio iznimno samokritičan i ostavio je u oporuci zahtjev da se njegovi neobjavljeni rukopisi unište, što njegov prijatelj Max Brod nije ispoštovao – zahvaljujući čemu je Kafka postao svjetski poznat nakon smrti.
Umro je od tuberkuloze 1924. godine, u 41. godini života.
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Dnevnici, 1. svezak: 1909-1912.
Kafka's diaries, published posthumously, reveal the inner world of an anxious genius. The first volume covers his early years, when Kafka worked as an insurance clerk in Prague, faced with a dreary life and literary ambitions.
Dvorac
The Castle is Franz Kafka's last novel. In it, the protagonist known only as "K." he arrives in the village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who rule it from a castle supposedly owned by Count Westwest.
Jedna Swannova ljubav / Preobražaj / Čovjekova sudbina
The selection of titles of selected high school reading offered in this way is threefold in its thematic focus, which is seen in Proust in the old world, in Sholokhov in the new life, and in Kafka in the unreliable sign of man.
Proces
The Process is a novel by Franz Kafka, written between 1914 and 1915 and published in 1925.
Proces
Kafka wrote The Process between 1914 and 1915, published posthumously in 1925. The novel is unfinished but with an added final chapter by Max Brod. Edition with a foreword by B. Živojinović and an afterword by Walter Killi.
Sirius #82: Biblioteka znanstvene fantastike
Sirius was a Croatian science fiction magazine. The foundation was proposed by Damir Mikuličić in 1976. In Sirius, the works of domestic authors, as well as translations of foreign SF authors, were published. It was published from 1976 to 1989.
Umjetnik u gladovanju
The book contains chronologically arranged stories published during Kafka's lifetime, except for the last four, which he approved for publication but, unfortunately, did not live to see publication.