The story of K and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K's isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elu
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, and The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.
„Kontrabasistą nie można się urodzić. Kontrabasistą zostaje się z przypadku i rozczarowania” – opowiada o sobie tyleż tragiczny, co śmieszny muzyk nieudacznik, bohater monodramu rozsławionego przez Jerzego Stuhra. W dopełnieniu tej historii „o samoświadomości człowieka w jego maleńkim pokoiku” znajdziemy opowiadania „Gołąb” oraz „Trzy historie i jedno rozważanie”. Pełna swoistego humoru, błyskotliwa, niepowtarzalna proza jednego z najbardziej oryginalnych współczesnych autorów. Nie tylko dla miłośników „Pachnidła”!
Film tie-in edition of Bernhard Schlink's exceptionally powerful novel - 'A thriller, a love story and a deeply moving examination of a German conscience' [Independent on Saturday]