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    Collected Works
    Collected Works
    Collected Works
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    Collected Works

    Written by Franz Kafka

    Narrated by Frank Bryce and Hannah Smith

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    The Collected Works include the most important novellas and short stories of Franz Kafka.
    Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 - 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis), Der Process (The Trial), and Das Schloss (The Castle). The term Kafkaesque has entered the English language to describe situations like those found in his writing.
    Included in this collection:
    1. The Metamorphosis (1915)
    2. A Report for an Academy (1917)
    3. Up in the Gallery (1919)
    4. Before the Law (1919)
    5. In the Penal Colony (1919)
    6. A Hunger Artist (1922)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParolita Libro
    Release dateJun 1, 2019
    Author

    Franz Kafka

    Born in Prague in 1883, the son of a self-made Jewish merchant, Franz Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked in insurance. He published little during his lifetime and lived his life in relative obscurity. He was forced to retire from work in 1917 after being diagnosed with tuberculosis, a debilitating illness which dogged his final years. When he died in 1924 he bequeathed the – mainly unfinished – manuscripts of his novels, stories, letters and diaries to his friend the writer Max Brod with the strict instruction that they should be destroyed. Brod ignored Kafka’s wishes and organised the publication of his work, including The Trial, which appeared in 1925. It is through Brod’s efforts that Kafka is now regarded as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century.

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