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Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen
Der Band enthält Kafkas wichtigste kürzere Prosatexte aus der Zeit bis 1914: Gespräch mit dem Beter, Gespräch mit dem Betrunkenen, Großer Lärm, die Sammlung Betrachtung sowie die großen Erzählungen Das Urteil und In der Strafkolonie.
188 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1912
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Franz Kafka
3,370 books39k followersFranz 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 His major novels The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika were left unfinished and unpublished during his lifetime.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.
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.
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January 20, 2020
كافكا وكافكا وكافكا
دائما ودائما
ربما تكون هذه هي القصة الأكثر إفزاعا في كل ما كتب
ربما حتى عن روايته القصيرة مستوطنة العقاب
ففي تلك الرواية نعرف من البداية أن هناك عقوبة ستنفذ
أما في قصة الحكم العجيبة تلك
فإنك لا تعرف ما الذي أنت مقبل عليه
والفزع كل الفزع يأتي مع سطور القصة الأخيرة
ألهذه الدرجة كره كافكا ذاته
ألهذه الدرجة كان يشعر بالدونية
ألهذه الدرجة رأي في أبيه وحشا لا يرحم
كتبت مسبقا عن علاقة كافكا بأبيه في
ريفيــو المســـخ
ولكن مجددا نعود إلى نفس النقطة
هذا الأب القاسي الذي دمر نفس مرهفة
أنتجت لنا أدبا عظيما هذا صحيح
لكننا نبقى نتوجع على هذا الفتى النحيل المريض المسكين
الذي قبل مرار أن يسحقه الجميع
فتارة يصير حشرة تتعفن وتموت بالنهاية
وتارة كلبا يجوب الشوارع
وتارة خلدا مختبئا في جحره
وأخيرا بكلمة من أبيه يسرع الخطى إلى هلاكه
عندما وصلت لآخر نقطة في نهاية السطر الأخير
كنت على درجة عالية من الفزع والذهول
لم أصدق ببساطة أن الأمور يمكن أن تتطور لهذا الحد
لم يمهد لك كافكا
لا يفعل أبدا
اقرأ قصصه كلها وأنت تعلم أن عظمته تتجلى في أوجها حين يقترب من نهايتها
وفي كل مرة ستسحقك النهاية
October 16, 2022
Kafka wrote this short story in a single night and dedicated it to Felice Bauer, a new friend, to whom he was engaged for a while. It might be thought a rather odd dedication, given that it's a chilling story of Georg's relationship with his disappointed father (as Herman Kafka apparently was with Franz).
As with many of Kafka's writings, windows feature. It starts with a man gazing out of a window, remembering his friend who emigrated to Russia three years earlier. In contrast, his father's window is firmly shut.
Georg is trying to write to his friend, and this is tricky because he is worried that his friend's life has stalled, so is reluctant to recount his own happy news, most particularly his forthcoming marriage (he assumes his friend has lost all chance of marriage).
Instead, he reports random gossip, but even this causes problems:
"Thus it happened that three times in three quite widely separated letters Georg had announced the engagement of some indifferent man to some equally indifferent girl, until quite contrary to his intentions his friend began to develop an interest in this notable occurrence."
Thus far, it is a realistic story of an earnest young man, unsure of what is the right thing to do, with a dash of dry humour, but then it becomes more unsettling.
The father questions Georg's sanity and whether his friend exists. There is a confusing row during which the father lists his many disappointments with his son, and the reader is left uncertain of the truth and which, if any, of the characters, is sane.
It culminates with the father passing a terrible judgement on his son. And most shockingly of all, the son unquestioningly acquiesces.
You can read the full story here (9 pages), HERE.
See my Kafka-related bookshelf for other works by and about Kafka: HERE.
As with many of Kafka's writings, windows feature. It starts with a man gazing out of a window, remembering his friend who emigrated to Russia three years earlier. In contrast, his father's window is firmly shut.
Georg is trying to write to his friend, and this is tricky because he is worried that his friend's life has stalled, so is reluctant to recount his own happy news, most particularly his forthcoming marriage (he assumes his friend has lost all chance of marriage).
Instead, he reports random gossip, but even this causes problems:
"Thus it happened that three times in three quite widely separated letters Georg had announced the engagement of some indifferent man to some equally indifferent girl, until quite contrary to his intentions his friend began to develop an interest in this notable occurrence."
Thus far, it is a realistic story of an earnest young man, unsure of what is the right thing to do, with a dash of dry humour, but then it becomes more unsettling.
The father questions Georg's sanity and whether his friend exists. There is a confusing row during which the father lists his many disappointments with his son, and the reader is left uncertain of the truth and which, if any, of the characters, is sane.
It culminates with the father passing a terrible judgement on his son. And most shockingly of all, the son unquestioningly acquiesces.
You can read the full story here (9 pages), HERE.
See my Kafka-related bookshelf for other works by and about Kafka: HERE.
June 10, 2023
rip kafka, he would have loved therapy
March 22, 2020
Very short story, with a really powerful ending. Overall it had more of an effect on me than some of his novels. Felt a little like Chekhov too, so that's not a bad thing.
October 28, 2023
- لا ادري ايمكننا تقييم اعمال كافكا بشكل منفصل؟! اذا كان كذلك فهذا الكتاب لا معنى له... اما اذا اردنا ان نربط هذا الكتاب بما لحقه فهنا يكمن بيت القصيد، وفاتحة الأعمال واول الإبداع... ولذلك احترت في تقييمه!
- قرأت القصة عدة مرات، وقرأت بعدها البناء الأدبي للقصة، ومعنى بعض الجمل المرتبط اما بأساطير او بموقع المنزل واطلالته او برمزية الأسماء(روسيا) او الإسقاطات على حياة كافكا الشخصية (الصديق والوالد)... لكنها لم تقنعني.. وربما لهذا احترت في التقييم...
- الترجمة واختلاف البيئة ثد يكون لهما تأثير ايضا في فهم هذا النص!!... لا ادري..
- اعتقد انني سأعود لهذه المراجعة بعد الإنتهاء من كل ما كتبه كافكا!!
- قرأت القصة عدة مرات، وقرأت بعدها البناء الأدبي للقصة، ومعنى بعض الجمل المرتبط اما بأساطير او بموقع المنزل واطلالته او برمزية الأسماء(روسيا) او الإسقاطات على حياة كافكا الشخصية (الصديق والوالد)... لكنها لم تقنعني.. وربما لهذا احترت في التقييم...
- الترجمة واختلاف البيئة ثد يكون لهما تأثير ايضا في فهم هذا النص!!... لا ادري..
- اعتقد انني سأعود لهذه المراجعة بعد الإنتهاء من كل ما كتبه كافكا!!
July 13, 2023
A quick short story, this Author is a very wise legend.
March 12, 2021
رئالیسم وسوررئالیسم
داستانی درباره کشمکش بین یک پدر وپسر که منجر به اختلاف با پیامدهای هولناک میشود
شخصیت اصلی پسرجوانی است بنام گئورگ که دوسال از مرگ مادرش میگذرد وبا پدرش زندگی میکند
در داستان داوری همانند مسخ ،عواقب ناشی از شکست پسر در پذیرش اقتدار پدر نشان میدهد.
کمی از جریان داستان که میگذرد،گئورگ به پدرش میگوید كه میخواهد برای دوستش در روسیه که در تنهایی است وشرایط بدی را میگذراند، نامهای بنویسد. پدر كه ظاهراً در بستر بیماری است، نخست از وجود چنان دوستی اظهار بیاطلاعی میكند اما
پدر ناگهان روانداز را با چنان زوری از روی خودش پرت کرد که یکدم در هوا پرش داد و توی رختخواب برجهید وراست ایستاد.
قسمتی از متن
«
پدر به صدایی نرم ونازک درآمد که :
چون خانم دامنهایش را بالا زد،چون دامنهایش را اینجوری و اینجوری بالا زد،برایش خودشیرینی کردی و برای آنکه با دل آسوده باهاش صفا کنی ،یاد مادرت به ننگ آلوده ای ،به دوستت خیانت کرده ای و پدرت را طوری تو رختخواب چپانده ای که نمیتواند جنب بخورد اما میتواند جنب بخورد یا نمیتواند؟»
داستانی درباره کشمکش بین یک پدر وپسر که منجر به اختلاف با پیامدهای هولناک میشود
شخصیت اصلی پسرجوانی است بنام گئورگ که دوسال از مرگ مادرش میگذرد وبا پدرش زندگی میکند
در داستان داوری همانند مسخ ،عواقب ناشی از شکست پسر در پذیرش اقتدار پدر نشان میدهد.
کمی از جریان داستان که میگذرد،گئورگ به پدرش میگوید كه میخواهد برای دوستش در روسیه که در تنهایی است وشرایط بدی را میگذراند، نامهای بنویسد. پدر كه ظاهراً در بستر بیماری است، نخست از وجود چنان دوستی اظهار بیاطلاعی میكند اما
پدر ناگهان روانداز را با چنان زوری از روی خودش پرت کرد که یکدم در هوا پرش داد و توی رختخواب برجهید وراست ایستاد.
قسمتی از متن
«
پدر به صدایی نرم ونازک درآمد که :
چون خانم دامنهایش را بالا زد،چون دامنهایش را اینجوری و اینجوری بالا زد،برایش خودشیرینی کردی و برای آنکه با دل آسوده باهاش صفا کنی ،یاد مادرت به ننگ آلوده ای ،به دوستت خیانت کرده ای و پدرت را طوری تو رختخواب چپانده ای که نمیتواند جنب بخورد اما میتواند جنب بخورد یا نمیتواند؟»
December 19, 2015
Probably the weirdest writer I have ever come across with one of his strangest stories. The Judgement appears simple and short but is infact multi-layered and complex, so much so that when I first stumbled upon this story, I thought 'Wtf happened'? Now having read more of literature and Kafka, the underlying tension begins to show itself, disguised innocously so that it is very very easy to miss. Indeed, the casual reader risks having the exact same reaction I had.
But it is precisely what makes this story such a rewarding experience for the meticulous reader. As soon as you begin noticing these contradictions, and you connect the events that happened later to the ones that happened before, you begin experiencing dissonance, because Kafka does a brilliant job of placing you inside the narrator's head, despite writing in third person.
If the purpose of literature is to evoke different experiences and emotions, then this story is an experience you've probably never had before. Read it, but carefully and meticolously, not very difficult to do because it is a very short story
But it is precisely what makes this story such a rewarding experience for the meticulous reader. As soon as you begin noticing these contradictions, and you connect the events that happened later to the ones that happened before, you begin experiencing dissonance, because Kafka does a brilliant job of placing you inside the narrator's head, despite writing in third person.
If the purpose of literature is to evoke different experiences and emotions, then this story is an experience you've probably never had before. Read it, but carefully and meticolously, not very difficult to do because it is a very short story
March 10, 2024
المؤلم في أدب كافكا أنه، وفي كل رواية أو قصة قرأتها له، لم يكن يكتب إلا نفسه. بالتأكيد لم يكتب نفسه صراحة، لكن ولو على الأقل بجملة، أو إلماح، أو إسقاط بسيط عنه. هو يكتب بروحه، وبدمه - كما قال نيتشه وكركيجارد، لكن لا بالمعنى المجازي للكلمة. عن الوالد المتسلط، عن الابن المتلعثم، وعامل المتجر المغبون حقه، ومديره المتسلط - أو أبيه
المؤلم في أدب كافكا أنك تحسه وتقرؤه، لا بوصفه خيال أو رمز أو قصة، لكن بوصفه واقع معيش.
المؤلم في أدب كافكا أنك تحسه وتقرؤه، لا بوصفه خيال أو رمز أو قصة، لكن بوصفه واقع معيش.
November 27, 2019
In 1912, the year that this short story was written, Kafka complaints of exhaustion, weakness, insomnia and fainting episodes. Partnering with his brother in law to set up a small asbestos factory wore him out, plus he was in love (sometimes) with Miss B. (Felice Bauer). In his diaries, he often complained that he "didn't write anything".
However, he is under pressure by his friend Max Brod to finish his first collection of short stories titled "Betrachtung". And all of a sudden on the night of the 22nd to the 23rd of September 1912, from 22:00 in the evening to 6:00 in the early morning, he begins writing and completing this short story. The day finds him overwhelmed and physically exhausted.
The Judgment (Das Urteil ) Η Κρίση:
Ένας νεαρός έμπορος, ονόματι Georg Bendemann, διατηρεί μια μακροχρόνια αλληλογραφία με τον αποτυχημένο φίλο του που έχει μεταναστεύσει στη Ρωσία. Καθώς σταδιακά η ζωή του Georg καλυτερεύει (μετά τον θάνατο της μητέρας του, ο αυταρχικός πατέρας του αποσύρεται από την οικογενειακή επιχείρηση, πλέον ο Georg αρχίζει να παίρνει πρωτοβουλίες και αρραβωνιάζεται) αρχίζει να αποξενώνεται από τον παλιό του φίλο. Όλα ωστόσο ανατρέπονται όταν η πατρική φιγούρα μετατρέπεται σε Κριτή του γιου, μέσα από ένα παραληρηματικό κατηγορητήριο.
Το 1912, τη χρονιά που γράφτηκε αυτό το διήγημα, ο Kafka παραπονείται για εξάντληση, αδυναμία, αϋπνίες και λιποθυμικά επεισόδια. Η δουλειά στο μικρό εργοστάσιο που έχει στήσει με τον γαμπρό του τον καταπονεί και είναι ερωτευμένος (μερικές φορές) με την δα. Μπ. (Felice Bauer). Συνεχώς επαναλαμβάνει τη φράση "δεν έγραψα τίποτα". Ωστόσο πιέζεται από τον φίλο του Max Brod να τελειώσει τη πρώτη συλλογή διηγημάτων με τίτλο Betrachtung (Στοχασμοί).
Και ξαφνικά μέσα σε μια νύχτα 22α με 23η Σεπτεμβρίου 1912, από τις 22:00 το βράδυ ως τις 6:00 τα ξημερώματα ξεκινάει να γράφει και ολοκληρώνει το συγκεκριμένο διήγημα. Η ημέρα τον βρίσκει κατενθουσιασμένο (τρομαχτική ένταση και χαρά) αλλά και εξαντλημένο σωματικά (ελαφριοί πόνοι στην καρδιά, βάρος στην πλάτη, κούραση που άρχισε να περνάει στη μέση της νύχτας). Σε αυτήν την ημερολογιακή καταχώρηση αναφέρει τις πηγές της έμπνευσής του:
Σκέψεις επάνω στον Sigmund Freud.
Ένα σημείο επάνω στο μυθιστόρημα του Max Brod με τίτλο "Άρνολντ Μπιρ, το πεπρωμένο ενός Εβραίου" (Arnold Beer: The Fate of a Jew/ Arnold Beer: Das Schicksal eines Juden).
Ένα σημείο (δεν προσδιορίζει ποιο) από έργο του Jakob Wassermann (1873 – 1934).
Ένα άλλο σημείο από τη "Γιγάντισσα" (Die Riesin. Ein Augenblick der Seele) του Franz Werfel (1890 -1945) που είχε δημοσιευτεί σε περιοδικό στα 1912.
Το δικό του ημιτελές διήγημα που σώζεται από αποσπασματική καταγραφή στο ημερολόγιο του 1911 με τίτλο "Ο κόσμος της Πόλης" (Die stadtische Welt/ The Urban World).
Ο Kafka δεν αποφεύγει να δώσει εξηγήσεις για την αιτία που έγραψε αυτό το διήγημα. Ο κεντρικός ήρωας είναι φτιαγμένος σύμφωνα με τον εαυτό του (το Georg έχει τόσα γράμματα και το Franz) και περιγράφει την ολοκληρωτική αποξένωση από τον πατέρα του. Ωστόσο δεν του λείπει το χιούμορ. Όταν η αδερφή του διάβασε το διήγημα και παρατήρησε πως «Είναι το δικό μας σπίτι» ο Kafka σχολίασε ως εξής:
«Μου φάνηκε παράξενο ότι δεν είχε καταλάβει καλά τη διάταξη των χώρων και είπα: «Μα τότε ο πατέρας θα έπρεπε να μένει στην τουαλέτα».
However, he is under pressure by his friend Max Brod to finish his first collection of short stories titled "Betrachtung". And all of a sudden on the night of the 22nd to the 23rd of September 1912, from 22:00 in the evening to 6:00 in the early morning, he begins writing and completing this short story. The day finds him overwhelmed and physically exhausted.
The Judgment (Das Urteil ) Η Κρίση:
Ένας νεαρός έμπορος, ονόματι Georg Bendemann, διατηρεί μια μακροχρόνια αλληλογραφία με τον αποτυχημένο φίλο του που έχει μεταναστεύσει στη Ρωσία. Καθώς σταδιακά η ζωή του Georg καλυτερεύει (μετά τον θάνατο της μητέρας του, ο αυταρχικός πατέρας του αποσύρεται από την οικογενειακή επιχείρηση, πλέον ο Georg αρχίζει να παίρνει πρωτοβουλίες και αρραβωνιάζεται) αρχίζει να αποξενώνεται από τον παλιό του φίλο. Όλα ωστόσο ανατρέπονται όταν η πατρική φιγούρα μετατρέπεται σε Κριτή του γιου, μέσα από ένα παραληρηματικό κατηγορητήριο.
Το 1912, τη χρονιά που γράφτηκε αυτό το διήγημα, ο Kafka παραπονείται για εξάντληση, αδυναμία, αϋπνίες και λιποθυμικά επεισόδια. Η δουλειά στο μικρό εργοστάσιο που έχει στήσει με τον γαμπρό του τον καταπονεί και είναι ερωτευμένος (μερικές φορές) με την δα. Μπ. (Felice Bauer). Συνεχώς επαναλαμβάνει τη φράση "δεν έγραψα τίποτα". Ωστόσο πιέζεται από τον φίλο του Max Brod να τελειώσει τη πρώτη συλλογή διηγημάτων με τίτλο Betrachtung (Στοχασμοί).
Και ξαφνικά μέσα σε μια νύχτα 22α με 23η Σεπτεμβρίου 1912, από τις 22:00 το βράδυ ως τις 6:00 τα ξημερώματα ξεκινάει να γράφει και ολοκληρώνει το συγκεκριμένο διήγημα. Η ημέρα τον βρίσκει κατενθουσιασμένο (τρομαχτική ένταση και χαρά) αλλά και εξαντλημένο σωματικά (ελαφριοί πόνοι στην καρδιά, βάρος στην πλάτη, κούραση που άρχισε να περνάει στη μέση της νύχτας). Σε αυτήν την ημερολογιακή καταχώρηση αναφέρει τις πηγές της έμπνευσής του:
Σκέψεις επάνω στον Sigmund Freud.
Ένα σημείο επάνω στο μυθιστόρημα του Max Brod με τίτλο "Άρνολντ Μπιρ, το πεπρωμένο ενός Εβραίου" (Arnold Beer: The Fate of a Jew/ Arnold Beer: Das Schicksal eines Juden).
Ένα σημείο (δεν προσδιορίζει ποιο) από έργο του Jakob Wassermann (1873 – 1934).
Ένα άλλο σημείο από τη "Γιγάντισσα" (Die Riesin. Ein Augenblick der Seele) του Franz Werfel (1890 -1945) που είχε δημοσιευτεί σε περιοδικό στα 1912.
Το δικό του ημιτελές διήγημα που σώζεται από αποσπασματική καταγραφή στο ημερολόγιο του 1911 με τίτλο "Ο κόσμος της Πόλης" (Die stadtische Welt/ The Urban World).
Ο Kafka δεν αποφεύγει να δώσει εξηγήσεις για την αιτία που έγραψε αυτό το διήγημα. Ο κεντρικός ήρωας είναι φτιαγμένος σύμφωνα με τον εαυτό του (το Georg έχει τόσα γράμματα και το Franz) και περιγράφει την ολοκληρωτική αποξένωση από τον πατέρα του. Ωστόσο δεν του λείπει το χιούμορ. Όταν η αδερφή του διάβασε το διήγημα και παρατήρησε πως «Είναι το δικό μας σπίτι» ο Kafka σχολίασε ως εξής:
«Μου φάνηκε παράξενο ότι δεν είχε καταλάβει καλά τη διάταξη των χώρων και είπα: «Μα τότε ο πατέρας θα έπρεπε να μένει στην τουαλέτα».
November 14, 2017
“Alone -- do you know what that means?”.
• OMG! This is a very short story, with a very powerful influence! It paved the way, for me, towards Kafka’s letter to his father. I believe he was describing his father in the story. What a heartless father he had!
“Alone -- do you know what that means?”.
• OMG! This is a very short story, with a very powerful influence! It paved the way, for me, towards Kafka’s letter to his father. I believe he was describing his father in the story. What a heartless father he had!
December 11, 2023
Das Urteil von Franz Kafka
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5*)
Ich habe diese kurze Erzählung bereits in meiner Schulzeit gelesen. Damals aber mit etwas weniger Freude und Interesse. 😉 Dieses Mal konnte ich das Ganze deutlich besser schätzen und habe mich auch für die Hintergründe interessiert. Die Erzählung ist ein gutes Beispiel für das Wort „kafkaesk“, gut zu lesen und spannend zum Interpretieren, war es aber auf jeden Fall. 😁👍🏻
„Anhand von Kafkas Erzählung «Das Urteil» lässt sich das literarische Deutungsmodell besonders gut vorführen: Hier scheint sich die Not eines jungen Mannes zu artikulieren, der von einem übermächtigen Vater an der Verwirklichung der eigenen Lebensziele gehindert wird. Seine Verlobung wird missbilligt, sein beruflicher Erfolg als Nutzniessertum abgewertet. Durch die autoritäre, verständnislose Haltung des Vaters wird der junge Mann letztendlich vernichtet. Der Versuch der Rebellion scheitert. Das patriarchalische Obrigkeitssystem siegt.“
Der Text ist sehr kurz und lässt viel Interpretationsspielraum. Die obere Interpretation des Verlags beschreibt das Ganze ziemlich deutlich und klar. Da ich das Buch mit meiner Frau zusammen gelesen habe, konnte man wunderbar darüber sprechen und wir kamen in etwa zum selben Schluss. Die Geschichte ist teilweise sehr verwirrend und man hat den Eindruck, der Vater und/oder der Sohn sind dement oder einfach verrückt aber wenn man die Geschichte von Kafka ein wenig kennt, wird klar, welche Probleme oder „Kämpfe“ er mit seinem Vater hatte. Sehr spannend, sehr kurz und sehr Interessant. 100% Empfehlung. 😁👍🏻
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5*)
Ich habe diese kurze Erzählung bereits in meiner Schulzeit gelesen. Damals aber mit etwas weniger Freude und Interesse. 😉 Dieses Mal konnte ich das Ganze deutlich besser schätzen und habe mich auch für die Hintergründe interessiert. Die Erzählung ist ein gutes Beispiel für das Wort „kafkaesk“, gut zu lesen und spannend zum Interpretieren, war es aber auf jeden Fall. 😁👍🏻
„Anhand von Kafkas Erzählung «Das Urteil» lässt sich das literarische Deutungsmodell besonders gut vorführen: Hier scheint sich die Not eines jungen Mannes zu artikulieren, der von einem übermächtigen Vater an der Verwirklichung der eigenen Lebensziele gehindert wird. Seine Verlobung wird missbilligt, sein beruflicher Erfolg als Nutzniessertum abgewertet. Durch die autoritäre, verständnislose Haltung des Vaters wird der junge Mann letztendlich vernichtet. Der Versuch der Rebellion scheitert. Das patriarchalische Obrigkeitssystem siegt.“
Der Text ist sehr kurz und lässt viel Interpretationsspielraum. Die obere Interpretation des Verlags beschreibt das Ganze ziemlich deutlich und klar. Da ich das Buch mit meiner Frau zusammen gelesen habe, konnte man wunderbar darüber sprechen und wir kamen in etwa zum selben Schluss. Die Geschichte ist teilweise sehr verwirrend und man hat den Eindruck, der Vater und/oder der Sohn sind dement oder einfach verrückt aber wenn man die Geschichte von Kafka ein wenig kennt, wird klar, welche Probleme oder „Kämpfe“ er mit seinem Vater hatte. Sehr spannend, sehr kurz und sehr Interessant. 100% Empfehlung. 😁👍🏻
July 29, 2019
"I sentence you now to death by drowning." 💔💔
There is no need to emphasize that Kafka is talking here about his relationship with his father. However, I still do not know if I ever managed to get through "The Transfiguration" to the end. This story is so nightmarish, waaah! That's why I could't know how can I rate it without delay, or even more than that, what I felt about it!; I loved it in a bad way!, or maybe contrariwise I hated it in a good way!.
There is no need to emphasize that Kafka is talking here about his relationship with his father. However, I still do not know if I ever managed to get through "The Transfiguration" to the end. This story is so nightmarish, waaah! That's why I could't know how can I rate it without delay, or even more than that, what I felt about it!; I loved it in a bad way!, or maybe contrariwise I hated it in a good way!.
May 25, 2021
Dafür dass es mein erstes Buch von Franz Kafka war, war es eeeecht gut! Hatte mir schon im Vorhinein Gedanken gemacht, ob es nicht zu anspruchsvoll sein wird, aber es war gut. Teilweise etwas verwirrend und komplex, aber gut.
Trifft meinen Geschmack von klassischer Literatur, aber absolut verständlich, dass das nichts für Jedermann ist & man kann es auch nicht an einem Tag verschlingen. Ich fand die Kurzgeschichte "Das Urteil" tatsächlich am besten. Danach hatte ich einen fetten Klos im Hals. "Die Verwandlung" hat sich für meinen Geschmack etwas zu sehr in die Länge gezogen und ich fand die Geschichte auch etwas zu sehr beklemmend (dafür ist Kafka bekannt, ich weiß ja).
Trifft meinen Geschmack von klassischer Literatur, aber absolut verständlich, dass das nichts für Jedermann ist & man kann es auch nicht an einem Tag verschlingen. Ich fand die Kurzgeschichte "Das Urteil" tatsächlich am besten. Danach hatte ich einen fetten Klos im Hals. "Die Verwandlung" hat sich für meinen Geschmack etwas zu sehr in die Länge gezogen und ich fand die Geschichte auch etwas zu sehr beklemmend (dafür ist Kafka bekannt, ich weiß ja).
October 17, 2023
"Ich kann nicht aus mir einen Menschen herausschneiden, der vielleicht für die Freundschaft mit ihm geeigneter wäre, als ich es bin. "
~zu ertrinken ist eines der schlimmsten Arten zu sterben genauso wie es für jedes Kind die größte Angst ist die eigenen Eltern zu enttäuschen und von ihnen verurteilt zu werden.
Das Buch zeigt auch wie jeder von uns in seiner eigenen Welt /Bubble leben und sich dabei von seinem nächsten entfremden kann.
~zu ertrinken ist eines der schlimmsten Arten zu sterben genauso wie es für jedes Kind die größte Angst ist die eigenen Eltern zu enttäuschen und von ihnen verurteilt zu werden.
Das Buch zeigt auch wie jeder von uns in seiner eigenen Welt /Bubble leben und sich dabei von seinem nächsten entfremden kann.
July 26, 2024
Im very confused yall
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January 18, 2024Kolonia karna uderzyla 🤨🤨
January 5, 2024
Disappointing your Parents, keeping secrets from your friends are common themes everyone can identify with
Kafkas “Das Urteil” is a Short story about a Merchant writing intentional superficial letters to a Friend in Russia, entertaining him with the most basic of information to not make him jealous of feel bad about himself.
Georg, the merchant strictly following the rule that unsaid words cannot hurt, the truth or honesty doing more harm than good.
After a brief conversation with his father the story ends tragically.
It does not feel like a book, it feels like an arrogant telling of raw emotion. Youre only reading words, no imagination of rooms or looks, no sense of space and time. A Vakuum feeling tighter as the story withers away
Not a good book or a good story but a a gentle, sad mind
Kafkas “Das Urteil” is a Short story about a Merchant writing intentional superficial letters to a Friend in Russia, entertaining him with the most basic of information to not make him jealous of feel bad about himself.
Georg, the merchant strictly following the rule that unsaid words cannot hurt, the truth or honesty doing more harm than good.
After a brief conversation with his father the story ends tragically.
It does not feel like a book, it feels like an arrogant telling of raw emotion. Youre only reading words, no imagination of rooms or looks, no sense of space and time. A Vakuum feeling tighter as the story withers away
Not a good book or a good story but a a gentle, sad mind
November 1, 2023
'dear parents, i did always love you.'
kafka wrote this in a single sitting and i read it in a single sitting.
kafka wrote this in a single sitting and i read it in a single sitting.
November 14, 2023
I WANT MORE.
October 26, 2025
niemand versteht kafka, so wie ich ihn verstehe (es ist meine persönliche red flag)
May 5, 2025
[listened to the audiobook version of 'Das Urteil']
3.75⭐️
drowning in daddy issues (so real of franz)
3.75⭐️
drowning in daddy issues (so real of franz)
October 23, 2018
This is the second Kafka's piece that I have read. I noticed that both writings (The metamorphosis and The judgement) are very vague and sort of demanding. The stories are demanding our thoughts and creativity. They are all very straight forward and simple, however the simpleness creates its own deep philosophy. Franz Kafka is a great writer, who is really gloomy and deep. I really like this type of writing style, and I hope to read more of his writings.
October 6, 2022
There must have been a storm raging through his heart while Kafka sat down to write this short story and it shows. Readers who are fairly aware of his personal life and/or have read his books before will be able to trace out his declining mental health in this one.
Also, if you are interested to learn more about his strained relationship with his father, who has always been an overbearing presence in his life, The Judgment will be a good choice.
Also, if you are interested to learn more about his strained relationship with his father, who has always been an overbearing presence in his life, The Judgment will be a good choice.
June 22, 2022
Gehört: Das Urteil
Zuvor schon gelesen: Der Prozess & Die Verwandlung
Zuvor schon gelesen: Der Prozess & Die Verwandlung
January 3, 2023
Had to do some research into the meaning afterwards but that only added to my interest in this
Kafka has got so much into such a short story it’s fascinating
Kafka has got so much into such a short story it’s fascinating
January 29, 2026
ja... nei...
July 13, 2018
A short but very profound story about different aspects:
1. The relationship between father and son.
2. How we change our emotions and thoughts quickly - we can go from empathy and generosity to anger, or from love to hate in a matter of seconds.
3. The guilt we carry from the most absurd things.
4. How each individual lives in their own world, with their own visions and selfishness.
5. The guilt that each one carries, however absurd it may be.
6. The verdict we impose on ourselves and others, by a constant judgment by our own references.
7. The place of power where we place ourselves over others - through social hierarchies (such as the relationship of father and son) and the ideas we develop, for example the supposed "pity" we feel for others, we constantly put ourselves above of others.
8. The different characters we create from ourselves that we show at work, in society and at home, in our intimacy.
9. The "well of vanity" that we are.
Around all of this, there are other issues constantly present in Kafka's stories: alienation, condemnation and absurd condemnation.
The narrative revolves around a character who becomes engaged and decides to tell his or her engagement to a friend who moved to another city and who is experiencing difficulties and who does not want to return to his hometown because of the shame of not having given in nothing in life.
The protagonist does not want to tell the friend of his engagement not to make him more unhappy. Georg works and lives with his father, a widowed and old man.
Most of the story takes place in a dark room, with the windows closed, in a conversation between the father and son about Georg's decision to tell his friend about his engagement and the speeches his father makes to him in the light of that event.
As in other stories, Kafka provokes to life the selfish proportions that defy and define the limits of itself: its horizon, its hopes, expectations, memories and depravations, reaching the end of itself: the absurd meaning.
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Uma história curta, mas muito profunda sobre diferentes aspectos:
1. A relação entre pai e filho.
2. Como mudamos de emoção e de pensamentos rapidamente - podemos ir da empatia e da generosidade à raiva, ou do amor ao ódio em questão de segundos.
3. A culpa que carregamos das coisas mais absurdas.
4. Como cada indivíduo vive em seu próprio mundo, com suas próprias visões e egoísmo.
5. A culpa que cada um carrega, por mais absurda que ela seja.
6. O veredito que impomos à nós mesmos e aos outros, por um julgamento constante por nossas próprias referências.
7. O lugar de poder onde colocamos nós mesmos sobre os demais - através de hierarquias sociais (como a relação de pai e filho) e sobre as idéias que desenvolvemos, por exemplo a suposta "pena" que sentimos pelos outros, constantemente nos colocamos acima dos demais.
8. Os diferentes personagens que criamos de nós mesmos que mostramos no trabalho, na sociedade e em casa, na nossa intimidade.
9. O "poço de vaidade" que somos.
Em torno de tudo isso, há outras questões constantemente presentes nas histórias de Kafka: a alienação, a condenação e a condenação absurda.
A narrativa gira em torno de um personagem que torna-se noivo e decide contar ou não seu noivado a um amigo que mudou-se para outra cidade e que passa por dificuldades e que não quer retornar à sua cidade de origem pela vergonha de não ter dado certo em nada na vida.
O protagonista não quer contar ao amigo de seu noivado para não deixá-lo mais infeliz. Georg trabalha e mora com o pai, um homem viúvo e já velho.
A maior parte da história se passa dentro de um quarto escuro, com as janelas fechadas, numa conversa entre o pai e o filho sobre a decisão de Georg contar do noivado ao amigo e os discursos que o pai faz para ele em função desse acontecimento.
Como em outras histórias, Kafka provoca apontando à vida as proporções egoístas que desafiam e definem os limites dela mesma: seu horizonte, suas esperanças, expectativas, memórias e depravações, chegando ao fim dela mesma: o absurdo que se significa.
1. The relationship between father and son.
2. How we change our emotions and thoughts quickly - we can go from empathy and generosity to anger, or from love to hate in a matter of seconds.
3. The guilt we carry from the most absurd things.
4. How each individual lives in their own world, with their own visions and selfishness.
5. The guilt that each one carries, however absurd it may be.
6. The verdict we impose on ourselves and others, by a constant judgment by our own references.
7. The place of power where we place ourselves over others - through social hierarchies (such as the relationship of father and son) and the ideas we develop, for example the supposed "pity" we feel for others, we constantly put ourselves above of others.
8. The different characters we create from ourselves that we show at work, in society and at home, in our intimacy.
9. The "well of vanity" that we are.
Around all of this, there are other issues constantly present in Kafka's stories: alienation, condemnation and absurd condemnation.
The narrative revolves around a character who becomes engaged and decides to tell his or her engagement to a friend who moved to another city and who is experiencing difficulties and who does not want to return to his hometown because of the shame of not having given in nothing in life.
The protagonist does not want to tell the friend of his engagement not to make him more unhappy. Georg works and lives with his father, a widowed and old man.
Most of the story takes place in a dark room, with the windows closed, in a conversation between the father and son about Georg's decision to tell his friend about his engagement and the speeches his father makes to him in the light of that event.
As in other stories, Kafka provokes to life the selfish proportions that defy and define the limits of itself: its horizon, its hopes, expectations, memories and depravations, reaching the end of itself: the absurd meaning.
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Uma história curta, mas muito profunda sobre diferentes aspectos:
1. A relação entre pai e filho.
2. Como mudamos de emoção e de pensamentos rapidamente - podemos ir da empatia e da generosidade à raiva, ou do amor ao ódio em questão de segundos.
3. A culpa que carregamos das coisas mais absurdas.
4. Como cada indivíduo vive em seu próprio mundo, com suas próprias visões e egoísmo.
5. A culpa que cada um carrega, por mais absurda que ela seja.
6. O veredito que impomos à nós mesmos e aos outros, por um julgamento constante por nossas próprias referências.
7. O lugar de poder onde colocamos nós mesmos sobre os demais - através de hierarquias sociais (como a relação de pai e filho) e sobre as idéias que desenvolvemos, por exemplo a suposta "pena" que sentimos pelos outros, constantemente nos colocamos acima dos demais.
8. Os diferentes personagens que criamos de nós mesmos que mostramos no trabalho, na sociedade e em casa, na nossa intimidade.
9. O "poço de vaidade" que somos.
Em torno de tudo isso, há outras questões constantemente presentes nas histórias de Kafka: a alienação, a condenação e a condenação absurda.
A narrativa gira em torno de um personagem que torna-se noivo e decide contar ou não seu noivado a um amigo que mudou-se para outra cidade e que passa por dificuldades e que não quer retornar à sua cidade de origem pela vergonha de não ter dado certo em nada na vida.
O protagonista não quer contar ao amigo de seu noivado para não deixá-lo mais infeliz. Georg trabalha e mora com o pai, um homem viúvo e já velho.
A maior parte da história se passa dentro de um quarto escuro, com as janelas fechadas, numa conversa entre o pai e o filho sobre a decisão de Georg contar do noivado ao amigo e os discursos que o pai faz para ele em função desse acontecimento.
Como em outras histórias, Kafka provoca apontando à vida as proporções egoístas que desafiam e definem os limites dela mesma: seu horizonte, suas esperanças, expectativas, memórias e depravações, chegando ao fim dela mesma: o absurdo que se significa.
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