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Diaries by Franz Kafka - Franz Kafka

An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries — a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers'The writing glimmers with sensitivity, and openness to the world' - The Wall Street JournalDating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka’s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including acco...

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The Diaries of Franz Kafka - Franz Kafka

<p>An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries--a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers.</p> <p> </p> <p>Dating from 1909 to 1923, the handwritten diaries contain various kinds of writing: accounts of daily events, reflections, observations, li...

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Diaries of Franz Kafka

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Diaries of Franz Kafka - Kafka Franz

Anotace: The diaries of the acclaimed author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial-one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century-provide a penetrating look into Prague and the life and dreams of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka's death at the age of forty. They provide...

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Diaries of Franz Kafka - Franz Kafka

<p>The diaries of the acclaimed author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—provide a penetrating look into Prague and the life and dreams of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a look ...

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Franz Kafka

This lavish book about the most famous native of Prague Franz Kafka is intended for everyone who wishes to learn more about his life and work, and his world. It brings to life the world of Prague German literature, the world of Kafka's interests, family and friends, and also the world of his strange stories, which continue to fascinate and puzzle both readers and experts....

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The Essential Kafka - Franz Kafka

Anotace: Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka´s world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very ...

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The Essential Kafka - Franz Kafka

<p>Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very e...

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The Complete Stories: Franz Kafka - Kafka Franz

Anotace: The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. "An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numino...

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The Complete Stories: Franz Kafka - Franz Kafka

<p>The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. "An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinou...

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Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923 - Franz Kafka

The diaries of the acclaimed author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—provide a penetrating look into Prague and the life and dreams of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century.

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Dearest Father - Kafka Franz

Anotace: In this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as a long, tense and dramatic confession in which writer and man are gathered together in front of an ambivalent figure of authority, Dearest Father is a desperate attempt to retrace the orig...

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Dearest Father - Franz Kafka

In this open letter to his father – a letter which was never sent – Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as a long, tense and dramatic confession in which writer and man are gathered together in front of an ambivalent figure of authority, Dearest Father is a desperate attempt to retrace the origins of a t...

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Franz Kafka - Radek Malý

Výpravná kniha o nejslavnějším pražském rodákovi Franzi Kafkovi přibližuje jeho život a dílo všem, kdo chtějí podrobněji poznat jeho svět. Ožívá v ní svět pražské německy psané literatury, svět jeho zájmů, rodiny a přátel a také svět prazvláštních příběhů, nad kterými si dodnes lámou hlavu čtenáři i odborníci na slovo vzatí. Autorem textu je dvojnásobný držitel ocenění Ma...

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The Trial - Franz Kafka

<p>On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he will be set free, but must make regular appearances at a court in the attic of a tenement building while his trial proceeds. Although he never comes to know the particulars of his case, Josef K. finds his life taken over by the...

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Minority Report - Kafka Franz

Anotace: The reports collected in this volume are not simply about Franz Kafka and his work. As the title suggests, the Kafkian universe is examined here with respect to the problem of minority, which can be treated in many ways, but what is decisive here is the notion of minority developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus, in which the differe...

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Franz Kafka - Minority Report

The reports collected in this volume are not simply about Franz Kafka and his work. As the title suggests, the Kafkian universe is examined here with respect to the problem of minority, which can be treated in many ways, but what is decisive here is the notion of minority developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus, in which the difference betwee...

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The Trial - Franz Kafka

<p>A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain...

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The Trial - Kafka Franz

Anotace: Through tight dialogue and absurd settings Kafka creates a maze-like prose to mimic the bureaucracy of early 20th century Germany, trapping his protagonist in an unlawful conviction that alters the path of his life. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. ...

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Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

<p>Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean isl...

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The Trial - Franz Kafka

<p>Through tight dialogue and absurd settings Kafka creates a maze-like prose to mimic the bureaucracy of early 20th century Germany, trapping his protagonist in an unlawful conviction that alters the path of his life. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These ...

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Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

Anotace: The best-known novellas and stories of one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century. Included are "The Judgment, " "A Country Doctor, " and "A Hunger Artist." New Foreword by Anne Rice. Review "Kafka's survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon: 'With their po...

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Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

<p>The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been called one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. One day, Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect (the most common translation of the German des...

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Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

The best-known novellas and stories of one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century. Included are "The Judgment, " "A Country Doctor, " and "A Hunger Artist." New Foreword by Anne Rice.

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The Trial - Franz Kafka

<p>'In the end, out of nothing at all, an enormous fabric of guilt will be conjured up.' One morning Josef K. is arrested for a crime he did not commit. In fact, he is never even told the nature of the offense. His life is thrown into turmoil as he becomes enmeshed in a struggle to prove his innocence. As the confounding case unfolds, K. is ultimately powerless - ba...

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Betrachtung - Franz Kafka

Anotace: Německé vydání Kafkova malá rozjímání jsou něčím v německé literatuře neznámým; myslím, nevím o ničem, co by mohlo být jejich vzorem. Hans Kohn v Selbstwehr, 20. 12. 1912 Zdá se mi, že tady leží cesta, která vede na Parnas ; něco ...

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Letters to Milena - Kafka Franz

Anotace: Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech. Their relationship quickly developed into a deep attachment. S...

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Letters to Milena - Franz Kafka

<p>Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech. Their relationship quickly developed into a deep attachment. Such was his...

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Amerika, 1. vydání - Franz Kafka

<p>Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent.</p> <p>Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and never finished) is infused with a quite un-Kafkaes...

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Popis jednoho zápasu - Franz Kafka

Anotace: Próza Popis jednoho zápasu je prvním Kafkovým rozsáhlejším literárním pokusem, který se dochoval. Je to typ experimentální literatury, avšak ne ve smyslu programového experimentu, jaký známe ze soudobého i pozdějšího modernismu a a...

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Franz Kafka. The Poet of Shame and Guilt - Saul Friedländer

<p>A highly original and engaging appraisal of Kafka’s life, work, legacy, and thought Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence—in his many letters, in his extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating book investigates some of...

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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka

One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature, ‘The Metamorphosis’ is accompanied in this volume by a selection of other classic tales and sketches by Kafka.

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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Kafka Franz

One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature, 'The Metamorphosis' is accompanied in this volume by a selection of other classic tales and sketches by Kafka - such as 'The Judgement', 'In the Penal Colony' and 'A Country Doctor' - all presented in a lively and meticulous new translation by Christopher Moncrieff.

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The Castle, 1. vydání - Franz Kafka

<p>Franz Kafka's final novel tells the haunting tale of a man known only as K. and of his relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain entrance to the Castle. Although Kafka seemed to consider `The Castle` a failure, critics, in wrestling with its enigmatic meaning, have recognized it as one of the great novels of our century. Unfin...

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The Castle, 1. vydání - Franz Kafka

<p>The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the na...

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Franz Kafka - Člověk své a naší doby

Výpravná kniha o nejslavnějším pražském rodákovi Franzi Kafkovi přibližuje jeho život a dílo všem, kdo chtějí podrobněji poznat jeho svět. Ožívá v ní svět pražské německy psané literatury, svět jeho zájmů, rodiny a přátel a také svět prazvláštních příběhů, nad kterými si dodnes lámou hlavu čtenáři i odborníci na slovo vzatí. Autorem textu je dvojnásobný držitel ocenění Ma...

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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka

Anotace: When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, ...

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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka

<p>When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, a...

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Franz Kafka - Minority Report - Petr Kouba

<p>The reports collected in this volume are not simply about Franz Kafka and his work. As the title suggests, the Kafkian universe is examined here with respect to the problem of minority, which can be treated in many ways, but what is decisive here is the notion of minority developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus, in which the differen...

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Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka

<p>A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael HofmannKafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Contemplation, a collection of his earlier short st...

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Amerika: The Missing Person - Franz Kafka

Anotace: From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, his first--and funniest--novel. Amerika tells the story of the young Karl Rossmann who, after an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up...

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Amerika: The Missing Person - Franz Kafka

<p>From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, his first--and funniest--novel. Amerika tells the story of the young Karl Rossmann who, after an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up ...

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Popis jednoho zápasu, 1. vydání - Franz Kafka

<p>Próza Popis jednoho zápasu je prvním Kafkovým rozsáhlejším literárním pokusem, který se dochoval. Je to typ experimentální literatury, avšak ne ve smyslu programového experimentu, jaký známe ze soudobého i pozdějšího modernismu a avantgardy. Autor si tu - chtěje zachytit vnější, ale především svůj vnitřní svět naprosto přesně a autenticky, bez ohledu na literární...

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Popis jednoho zápasu, 1. vydání - Franz Kafka

<p>Povídka Popis jednoho zápasu je pravděpodobně nejstarším dochovaným textem Franze Kafky: byl nalezen její fragment datovaný do let 1904-1905, kdy bylo Kafkovi krátce po dvacítce. Stejně jako velká část spisovatelova díla však spatřila světlo světa až díky Kafkově příteli Maxu Brodovi, který nerespektoval přání vyjádřené v Kafkově závěti, aby byla jeho nevydaná dí...

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The Burrow : Posthumously Published Short Fiction - Franz Kafka

<p>After Franz Kafka's death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of literary disobedience, his executor refused to agree to Kafka's wish that his great mass of unpublished fiction be destroyed. This fiction included not only The Castle and The Trial but also the amazingly varied, chilling and ingenious short works collected in The Burrow and Other Stories. Th...

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Franz Kafka - Člověk své a naší doby - Renáta Fučíková

<p></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> Výpravná kniha o nejslavnějším pražském rodákovi Franzi Kafkovi přibližuje jeho život a dílo všem, kdo chtějí podrobněji poznat jeho svět. Ožívá v ní svět pražské německy psané literatury, svět jeho zájmů, rodiny a přátel a také svět prazvláštních příběhů, nad kterými si dodnes lámou hlavu čtenáři i odbor...

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Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories - Franz Kafka

<p>The best-known novellas and stories of one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century. Included are "The Judgment, " "A Country Doctor, " and "A Hunger Artist." New Foreword by Anne Rice. Review "Kafka's survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon: 'With their posterior leg...

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Kafka and Photography

Franz Kafka was fascinated by photography, a medium which for him came to encapsulate both the attractions and the pitfalls of modern life. In the fir

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Kafka in Prague - neuveden

Anotace: Nearly 100 years after Franz Kafka`s death, his works continue to intrigue and haunt us. Even for those who are only fleetingly acquainted with his unfinished novels, or his stories, diaries, and letters, `Kafkaesque` has become a byword for the menacing, unfathomable absurdity of modern existence and bureaucracy. Yet for all the universal significance of his fi...

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The Essential Kafka

Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a rel...

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Kafka/Rané roky

Třídílná biografie o životě a díle jednoho z největších, nejznámějších a nejčtenějších autorů světové literatury, pražského německy píšícího spisovatele Franze Kafky (1883–1924) je rozsahem i významem monumentální, výjimečná a zcela ojedinělá. Německý literární historik, který kromě literární vědy vystudoval rovněž filozofii a matematiku, pracoval na třídílném souboru cel...

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Franz Kafka - Člověk své a naší doby (anglicky) - Radek Malý; Renáta Fučíková

Anotace: This lavish book about the most famous native of Prague Franz Kafka is intended for everyone who wishes to learn more about his life and work, and his world. It brings to life the world of Prague German literature, the world of Kafka's interests, family and friends, and also the world of his strange stories, which continue to fascinate and puzzle both readers an...

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Franz Kafka - Člověk své a naší doby (anglicky) - Malý Radek, Fučíková Renáta,

This lavish book about the most famous native of Prague Franz Kafka is intended for everyone who wishes to learn more about his life and work, and his world. It brings to life the world of Prague German literature, the world of Kafka’s interests, family and friends, and also the world of his strange stories, which continue to fascinate and puzzle both readers and experts....

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Franz Kafka - A Man of His Time and Our Own - Renáta Fučíková

<p></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> This lavish book about the most famous native of Prague Franz Kafka is intended for everyone who wishes to learn more about his life and work, and his world. It brings to life the world of Prague German literature, the world of Kafka's interests, family and friends, and also the world of his strange stori...

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Franz Kafka - Člověk své a naší doby - Fučíková Renáta, Malý Radek

Výpravná kniha o nejslavnějším pražském rodákovi Franzi Kafkovi přibližuje jeho život a dílo všem, kdo chtějí podrobněji poznat jeho svět. Ožívá v ní svět pražské německy psané literatury, svět jeho zájmů, rodiny a přátel a také svět prazvláštních příběhů, nad kterými si dodnes lámou hlavu čtenáři i odborníci na slovo vzatí. Autorem textu je dvojnásobný držitel ocenění Ma...

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Franz Kafka - Člověk své a naší doby - Radek Malý; Renáta Fučíková

Anotace: Výpravná kniha o nejslavnějším pražském rodákovi Franzi Kafkovi přibližuje jeho život a dílo všem, kdo chtějí podrobněji poznat jeho svět. Ožívá v ní svět pražské německy psané literatury, svět jeho zájmů, rodiny a přátel a také svět prazvl&aacu...

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Kafka´s Prague - Wagenbach Klaus

Nearly 100 years after Franz Kafka's death, his works continue to intrigue and haunt us. Even for those who are only fleetingly acquainted with his unfinished novels, or his stories, diaries, and letters, `Kafkaesque' has become a byword for the menacing, unfathomable absurdity of modern existence and bureaucracy. Yet for all the universal significance of his fiction, Kaf...

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Kafka´s Prague - Klaus Wagenbach

<p>Nearly 100 years after Franz Kafka's death, his works continue to intrigue and haunt us. Even for those who are only fleetingly acquainted with his unfinished novels, or his stories, diaries, and letters, `Kafkaesque' has become a byword for the menacing, unfathomable absurdity of modern existence and bureaucracy. Yet for all the universal significance of his fic...

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Erzählungen (Kafka) - zjednodušená četba B1 v němčině (CIDEB) + CD

Zjednodušená četba na znalostní úrovni B1. Kniha obsahuje zjednodušenou a zkrácenou verzi Povídek od Franze Kafky. Tato kniha s proslulým tématem by neměla chybět v knihovničce žádného němčináře. Strany reálií knihy jsou věnovány tématům: autor Franz Kafka, Praha, Kafka a jeho otec. Přiložené audio-CD obsahuje čtený text knihy, případně i doplňkové poslechy (např. hudební...

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A Hunger Artist

"A Hunger Artist", also translated as "A Fasting Artist" and "A Starvation Artist", is a short story by Franz Kafka published in 1922. The protagonist is an archetype of Kafka, an individual marginalized by society.

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