Kafka: 561 books

No "real American" should read this book. But that's okay, since real Americans, like Sarah Palin for example, can't read anyway. And this book is banned in Texas. Which is kind of redundant considering the last sentence. This book is a compilation of satirical and comedic essays...

Our nation is in rapid decline. We don't want to acknowledge it or believe it, but it's true. If we don't change America will be history. The good news is that there is still time to save our great nation from extinction. We don't have to create anything, re-invent anything or do anything radical...

When people use the adjective 'Kafkaesque', it is The Trial they have in mind - the nightmarish world of Joseph K., where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and any help there may be comes from unexpected sources. K. is never told what he is on trial for, and when he says...

A timeless tale of ordinary terror. Josef K’s thirty-fifth birthday begins with a knock on his door. Three sinister agents have arrived from an unidentified agency to arrest him for unidentified crimes. But this is no birthday prank – this is life or death. So begins K’s dark descent into a waking nightmare of bizarre humiliations and compulsive procedures.

[2]Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Tr–umen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt. Er lag auf seinem panzerartig harten R–cken und sah, wenn er den Kopf ein wenig hob, seinen gew–lbten, braunen, von bogenf–rmigen Versteifungen geteilten Bauch,...

A travelling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. He becomes burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repulsed by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor has become.

The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded...

Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested. Every day at eight in the morning he was brought his breakfast by Mrs. Grubach's cook – Mrs. Grubach was his landlady – but today she didn't come. That had never happened before....

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Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon.Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur.Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Literatur TEXT + KRITIK."Es war spät abend als K. ankam. Das Dorf lag in tiefem Schnee. Vom Schloßberg...

Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon.Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur.Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Literatur TEXT + KRITIK."Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand...