Willa Muir was een Schotse romanschrijver, essayist en vertaler die feministische thema's verkende en belangrijke Duitse werken vertaalde. Haar essays bieden een diepgaand onderzoek naar de positie van vrouwen, gekenmerkt door intellectuele scherpte en inzicht. Naast haar eigen werk brachten Muir's vertalingen, waaronder die van Franz Kafka, belangrijke Europese literatuur onder de aandacht van nieuwe lezers. Haar nalatenschap ligt in deze krachtige combinatie van feministisch denken en toegewijde literaire vertaling.
Franz Kafka's enigmatic, deadpan, and deeply pessimistic stories are central to literary modernism. In 'The Metamorphosis', the estrangement of everyday life becomes corporealized when Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant bug and wonders how he is going to get to work on time. Kafka inverts the implied degradation of a man's transformation into an animal in 'A Report of the Academy', an ape's address to a group of scientists.
This volume is a celebration of the life and work of Willa Muir.
This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought. Some are well-known, others are mere jottings, observations of daily life, given artistic form through Kafka's unique perception of the world.
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 nature of existence. Kafka began The Castle in 1922 and it was never finished, yet this, the last of his three great novels, draws fascinating conclusions that make it feel strangely complete.
Een jongeman staat terecht zonder dat hem duidelijk wordt op welke beschuldiging.