یک پیغام همایونی

by Franz Kafka

Genres: Short Stories

Unknown Binding

About the author

Franz Kafka was a German-speaking writer from Prague whose work became one of the foundations of modern literature, even though he published only a small part of his writing during his lifetime. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kafka grew up amid German, Czech, and Jewish cultural influences that shaped his sense of displacement and linguistic precision. His difficult relationship with his authoritarian father left a lasting mark, fostering feelings of guilt, anxiety, and inadequacy that became central themes in his fiction and personal writings.
Kafka studied law at the German University in Prague, earning a doctorate in 1906. He chose law for practical reasons rather than personal inclination, a compromise that troubled him throughout his life. After university, he worked for several insurance institutions, most notably the Workers Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia. His duties included assessing industrial accidents and drafting legal reports, work he carried out competently and responsibly. Nevertheless, Kafka regarded his professional life as an obstacle to his true vocation, and most of his writing was done at night or during periods of illness and leave. Kafka began publishing short prose pieces in his early adulthood, later collected in volumes such as Contemplation and A Country Doctor. These works attracted little attention at the time but already displayed the hallmarks of his mature style, including precise language, emotional restraint, and the application of calm logic to deeply unsettling situations. His major novels The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika were left unfinished and unpublished during his lifetime. They depict protagonists trapped within opaque systems of authority, facing accusations, rules, or hierarchies that remain unexplained and unreachable. Themes of alienation, guilt, bureaucracy, law, and punishment run throughout Kafka’s work. His characters often respond to absurd or terrifying circumstances with obedience or resignation, reflecting his own conflicted relationship with authority and obligation. Kafka’s prose avoids overt symbolism, yet his narratives function as powerful metaphors through structure, repetition, and tone. Ordinary environments gradually become nightmarish without losing their internal coherence. Kafka’s personal life was marked by emotional conflict, chronic self-doubt, and recurring illness. He formed intense but troubled romantic relationships, including engagements that he repeatedly broke off, fearing that marriage would interfere with his writing. His extensive correspondence and diaries reveal a relentless self-critic, deeply concerned with morality, spirituality, and the demands of artistic integrity. In his later years, Kafka’s health deteriorated due to tuberculosis, forcing him to withdraw from work and spend long periods in sanatoriums. Despite his illness, he continued writing when possible. He died young, leaving behind a large body of unpublished manuscripts. Before his death, he instructed his close friend Max Brod to destroy all of his remaining work. Brod ignored this request and instead edited and published Kafka’s novels, stories, and diaries, ensuring his posthumous reputation.
The publication of Kafka’s work after his death established him as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. The term Kafkaesque entered common usage to describe situations marked by oppressive bureaucracy, absurd logic, and existential anxiety. His writing has been interpreted through existential, religious, psychological, and political perspectives, though Kafka himself resisted definitive meanings. His enduring power lies in his ability to articulate modern anxiety with clarity and restraint.

Reviews

[Mohajerino · Rating 1 out of 5]

نام دیگر این داستان کوتاه ,پیام امپراطور ترجمه امیرجلال الدین اعلم

داستان مبهم بود مثل خود کافکا

[Ardavan Bayat · Rating 3 out of 5]

برداشت من از این داستان کافکا این است که هنگامی که انسانی هرچند نیرومند یا دانا بمیرد، سخنانش برای بیشتر مردم ابی‌ارزش می‌شود و کسی نمی‌خواهد واپسین سخنانش را بشنود ولی هستند کسانی که در پی رساندن سخنان او به دیگران کوشش می‌کنند ولی با شکست روبرو می‌شوند

[D57 · Rating 5 out of 5]

قشنگ بود، پادشاه عالمی که بعد از مرگ حرفش هیچ ارزشی نداشت.

[Hanieh · Rating 3 out of 5]

3/5
In other words people don't give a damn about who you are. Once you're gone, you're gone.

[Mahsa · Rating 2 out of 5]

قدرت مرگ همین‌جاست، وقتی که همه چیز رو ازت می‌گیره ...

به وقت دی هزار و چهارصد

[Amin]

کافکا همچنان نفهمیدنی.

[امیرمحمد حیدری · Rating 5 out of 5]

فقط و فقط در یک صفحه است که ما شاهد برپایی یک امپراطوری عظیم، و امپراطوری مست از قدرت هستیم. و سپس، پوچی. تنهایی. ملال از این‌همه دارایی که راضی‌اش نمی‌کند و نخواهد کرد و خلأهای درونی او تا ابد به‌جا خواهند ماند.

[Bahman Bahman · Rating 2 out of 5]

«همیشه چیزها در خانه طور دیگری است. موطنِ کهنهٔ انسان، اگر با آگاهی در آن زندگی کند، با آگاهی کامل نسبت به بستگی‌ها و وظیفه‌هایش در برابر دیگران، همیشه تازه است. انسان در واقع تنها از این راه، از راهِ بستگی هاست که آزاد می‌شود..» گفتگو باکافکا، اثر گوستاو یانوش

[Maryam · Rating 4 out of 5]

منظور نویسنده خدایی است که در ذهن ها مرده و پیام هایی که میداده و پیام اورانش در هزاران سال پیش اما انقد مانع دار دنیا و انقدر غرق پوچی هستیم که پیام ها رو دریافت نمیکنیم زمانی متوجه میشیم که مرده ایم یا در حال مرگیم اما ... افسوس
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[Zahra · Rating 1 out of 5]

خب داستان خیلی نمادین بود. سراسر نماد بود و این از ویژگی‌های کافکاست. فهمیدن داستان‌هاش سخته، نیازه که نقدش هم خونده بشه. ولی من فکر می‌کنم علت نفهمیدنم ترجمه‌ی داغون بوده. ترجمه‌ی گوگل بهتره.

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[P_H · Rating 5 out of 5]

این کتاب به شدت کوتاهه خیلی کوتاه. من نظراتی که براش نوشته شده خوندم. به نظرم ممکنه هرکس برداشت خودش را داشته باشه و جالبه از یه کتاب به این کوتاهی میشه برداشت ها و نظرات متفاوتی داشت.

[Ryan Zandi · Rating 3 out of 5]

خروج از سیستمی که داخلش شدی غیرممکنه، هر تلاشی برای خروج از سیستم منجر به بقای اون سیستم میشه.

[Mohammad Ersi · Rating 1 out of 5]

خوندنش هیچ سودی نداره😐نخوندنش اما وقت رو هدر نمیده

[Reyhaneh · Rating 3 out of 5]

جالب بود. شبیه این دیدگاه بود که خروج از سیستمی که داخلشی غیرممکنه و تلاش بیشتر به نتیجه کمتری منتهی میشه و در نهایت حتی به نفع سیستم میشه.

(یاد ریک و مورتی فصل۳ قسمت۷ افتادم. دیدنش خالی از لطف نیست.)