Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was a Prague writer of Jewish origin who wrote in German and is considered one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. He was born in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied law and worked for an insurance company, but writing was his true passion, although he published only a small part of his work during his lifetime.
Kafka's works are marked by themes of alienation, bureaucracy, anxiety and the helplessness of the individual in a world without clear meaning or justice. His best-known works are The Metamorphosis, a novel about a man who wakes up transformed into an insect, and the novels The Trial and The Castle, which depict an individual confronted with absurd, impenetrable systems of power.
His style is characterized by precision of expression, an anxious atmosphere and symbolism, which later led to the term "Kafkaesque", which denotes situations without a way out or rational explanation. Kafka was extremely self-critical and left a request in his will that his unpublished manuscripts be destroyed, which his friend Max Brod did not comply with – thanks to which Kafka became world famous after his death.
He died of tuberculosis in 1924, at the age of 41.
Naslovi u ponudi
Dvorac
„Das Schloss“ ist Franz Kafkas letzter Roman. Darin ist der Protagonist nur als „K“ bekannt. Er kommt im Dorf an und kämpft darum, Zugang zu den mysteriösen Behörden zu erhalten, die es von einer Burg aus regieren, die angeblich dem Grafen Westwest gehört
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.
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
Knjiga sadrži kronološki poredane priče objavljene za Kafkina života osim posljednje četiri koje je odobrio za tisak, ali, nažalost, nije doživio njihovo izdanje.