Kafka Franz: Preobražaj

Name: Preobražaj
Price: 12.00 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Kafka Franz

€ 12,00

Free delivery in Croatia for orders over EUR 70

Basic information

Author: Kafka Franz
Publisher: Šareni dućan
Availability: Available
Condition: Nova knjiga
Code: 36547

Shipping options

GLS Croatia

5€

Delivery

0€

Personal collection at the antique store

0€

GLS parcel machine

3€

Payment methods

Pay on pickup

CorvusPay

By general payment / Virman / Internet banking

Cash on delivery

Description

Preobražaj

Kafka Franz

Summary

Franz Kafka: The Transfiguration

“What happened to me?” thought Kafka's hero when the author dispelled him in the first sentence of his most famous short work, perhaps the most famous in the history of literature: "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke up from restless dreams, he discovered that he had turned into a huge insect in his bed." Thus begins The Transfiguration, one of Kafka's masterpieces, which has undergone numerous interpretations and decipherments since its publication in 1915. This petty-bourgeois anti-idyll, laden with gloomy metaphors and some supernatural, almost elusive sensuality, actually tells a not-so-everyday, but still life story; because few people have not at least once "awakened from restless dreams" with the feeling that they are unloved, misunderstood and alone (just like Samsa), and that they would prefer to close themselves in their armor like some kind of insect and not leave the room. Feelings of rejection, misunderstanding, uncertainty or powerlessness to change something, which overwhelm the main character after the mysterious transformation, are unfortunately quite close to most people even today, although hateful. After all, as one critic remarked at the time: "The most terrifying thing about Kafka is that nothing terrifies anyone." Let's also mention the excellent new translation by Neda Paravić, the lucid afterword by Boris Perić and the usual excellent illustrations by Igor Hofbauer, who put on the cover exactly what the author expressly forbade the illustrator of the first edition: an insect!

#Kafka Franz #kultni klasici