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Kafka
Franz Kafkas Texte faszinieren und irritieren. Sie sind verrätselt und verstörend und ziehen den Leser gerade deshalb in ihren Bann. Die Hamburger Künstlerin Stefanie Harjes hat sich von ihnen zu außergewöhnlichen Illustrationen inspirieren lassen. "Kafka und ich" erzählt bildgewaltig von ihrer "amour fou" zu einem der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts.
128 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Franz Kafka
3,243 books37.8k followersPrague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as "
The Metamorphosis
" (1916), and posthumously published novels, including
The Trial
(1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of the French language and culture from Flaubert, one of his favorite authors.
Kafka first studied chemistry at the Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague but after two weeks switched to law. This study offered a range of career possibilities, which pleased his father, and required a longer course of study that gave Kafka time to take classes in German studies and art history. At the university, he joined a student club, named Lese- und Redehalle der Deutschen Studenten, which organized literary events, readings, and other activities. In the end of his first year of studies, he met Max Brod, a close friend of his throughout his life, together with the journalist Felix Weltsch, who also studied law. Kafka obtained the degree of doctor of law on 18 June 1906 and performed an obligatory year of unpaid service as law clerk for the civil and criminal courts.
Writing of Kafka attracted little attention before his death. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories and never finished any of his novels except the very short "The Metamorphosis." Kafka wrote to Max Brod, his friend and literary executor: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread." Brod told Kafka that he intended not to honor these wishes, but Kafka, so knowing, nevertheless consequently gave these directions specifically to Brod, who, so reasoning, overrode these wishes. Brod in fact oversaw the publication of most of work of Kafka in his possession; these works quickly began to attract attention and high critical regard.
Max Brod encountered significant difficulty in compiling notebooks of Kafka into any chronological order as Kafka started writing in the middle of notebooks, from the last towards the first, et cetera.
Kafka wrote all his published works in German except several letters in Czech to Milena Jesenská.
Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of the French language and culture from Flaubert, one of his favorite authors.
Kafka first studied chemistry at the Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague but after two weeks switched to law. This study offered a range of career possibilities, which pleased his father, and required a longer course of study that gave Kafka time to take classes in German studies and art history. At the university, he joined a student club, named Lese- und Redehalle der Deutschen Studenten, which organized literary events, readings, and other activities. In the end of his first year of studies, he met Max Brod, a close friend of his throughout his life, together with the journalist Felix Weltsch, who also studied law. Kafka obtained the degree of doctor of law on 18 June 1906 and performed an obligatory year of unpaid service as law clerk for the civil and criminal courts.
Writing of Kafka attracted little attention before his death. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories and never finished any of his novels except the very short "The Metamorphosis." Kafka wrote to Max Brod, his friend and literary executor: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread." Brod told Kafka that he intended not to honor these wishes, but Kafka, so knowing, nevertheless consequently gave these directions specifically to Brod, who, so reasoning, overrode these wishes. Brod in fact oversaw the publication of most of work of Kafka in his possession; these works quickly began to attract attention and high critical regard.
Max Brod encountered significant difficulty in compiling notebooks of Kafka into any chronological order as Kafka started writing in the middle of notebooks, from the last towards the first, et cetera.
Kafka wrote all his published works in German except several letters in Czech to Milena Jesenská.
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December 19, 2018
Livro muito bom! aliás são três livros muito bons. Metamorfose me deixou pensativo como poucos livros. Ele nos faz refletir sobre um dia virar um inseto monstruoso e afetar a todos que estão a minha volta. Eu já vi vários casos e é muito triste. Quem leu vai entender do que estou falando.
O Processo é uma obra de arte da litetatura mundial, muito avançado e complexo. Acho que nunca li um livro com tantas notas de rodapé... Kafka utilizou muitos elementos da sua vida pessoal nesse livro. O seu climax, na cena final, me lembrou muito o filme "Não Me Abandone Jamais" de 2010 no que tange ao sentimento dos protagonistas.
A Carta ao Pai precisa ser lido por todos os pais e mães. Quase uma autobiografia curta revelada em uma carta.
É isso, incrível.
O Processo é uma obra de arte da litetatura mundial, muito avançado e complexo. Acho que nunca li um livro com tantas notas de rodapé... Kafka utilizou muitos elementos da sua vida pessoal nesse livro. O seu climax, na cena final, me lembrou muito o filme "Não Me Abandone Jamais" de 2010 no que tange ao sentimento dos protagonistas.
A Carta ao Pai precisa ser lido por todos os pais e mães. Quase uma autobiografia curta revelada em uma carta.
É isso, incrível.
January 29, 2018
Eigentlich hatte ich gehofft, dass mir das Buch einen Einblich in Kafkas Schreibstil gibt, aber die meiste Zeit war ich beim Lesen einfach nur verwirrt. Auch die Zeichnungen haben mir nicht besonders gut gefallen und oft habe ich nicht mal den Zusammenhang verstanden.
Trotzdem werde ich mich noch mal an Kafka versuchen. Habe ihr vielleicht Tipps? Ich würde sonst mit "Der Prozess" anfangen :)
Trotzdem werde ich mich noch mal an Kafka versuchen. Habe ihr vielleicht Tipps? Ich würde sonst mit "Der Prozess" anfangen :)
May 29, 2016
Não é um típico livro ilustrado. Na maioria das páginas parece um sketchbook mesmo, bem visceral. Algumas ilustrações são interpretações mais diretas dos textos do Kafka, mas a maioria vai além disso. Só senti falta d"A Colônia Penal", um dos melhores textos do autor tcheco. Enfim, vale a pena dar uma olhada neste livro :)
December 29, 2017
"O verdadeiro caminho passa por uma corda que não está esticada no alto, mas bem rente ao chão. Parece mais destinada a fazer tropeçar que a ser percorrida."
"O animal arranca o chicote de seu senhor e chicoteia a si mesmo para se tornar senhor, mas não sabe que isso é apenas uma fantasia, produzida por um novo nó na correia."
Para além de trechos de textos clássicos de Kafka, como Carta ao pai, O processo e O castelo, "Meu Kafka" contém também alguns de seus aforismos, como os reproduzidos acima, e que são tão bons ou melhores que os trechos dos clássicos. Além, é claro, dos lindos desenhos e ilustrações de Stefane Harjes.
"O animal arranca o chicote de seu senhor e chicoteia a si mesmo para se tornar senhor, mas não sabe que isso é apenas uma fantasia, produzida por um novo nó na correia."
Para além de trechos de textos clássicos de Kafka, como Carta ao pai, O processo e O castelo, "Meu Kafka" contém também alguns de seus aforismos, como os reproduzidos acima, e que são tão bons ou melhores que os trechos dos clássicos. Além, é claro, dos lindos desenhos e ilustrações de Stefane Harjes.
July 21, 2017
Lindo! Projeto gráfico incrível! Só aumenta o apetite de devorar Kafka.
December 17, 2015
A seleção de textos do Kafka é boa, as ilustrações são interessantes... Mas só isso. Não achei que justificam o livro.
December 7, 2016
Metamorfose é 4/5, O Processo 3/5 e o Carta ao Pai 5/5.
July 24, 2019
massante demais. grr
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