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.
Exploring the journey of love, this narrative follows a couple who, despite their innocence, navigate life's challenges and serendipitously find joy and completeness in each other. Their story reflects a timeless truth about the nature of human connections, emphasizing that such bonds are both unique and universal. Through their experiences, the characters illustrate the beauty of companionship and the enduring power of love.
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.
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 opaque bureaucratic procedures and is tormented by the psychological pressures exerted by his legal nightmare. Published the year after the author's death, but written ten years earlier, The Trial is the most acclaimed of Kafka's three novels, and is both a haunting meditation on freedom and the powerlessness of the individual in the face of state power, and an ominous prefiguration of the totalitarian excesses of the twentieth century.
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
One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century - Elias Canetti on The TransformationA companion volume to The Great Wall of China and Other Short Works, these new translations bring together the small number of Kafka's stories that he thought worthy of publication.This volume contains his most famous story. The Transformation, more popularly known as Metamorphosis. Other works include 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 Fasting Artist, a collection of stories written towards the end of Kafka's life. There is also a fascinating occasional piece, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eye-witness account of an air display in 1909. Taken together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.Front cover drawing by Franz Kafka
This collection brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he 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, 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.
This book is a compilation of Gerhart Hauptmann's later dramas in prose, which include The Maidens of the Mount, Griselda, and Gabriel Schillings Flight. These plays probe the depths of human emotion and reveal the harsh realities of life.
This collection presents four gripping domestic dramas by renowned German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann. The plays explore themes of deception, betrayal, and redemption in gripping narratives that are sure to captivate audiences. Willa Muir's excellent translations ensure that the powerful impact of Hauptmann's original German text is not lost. A must-read for fans of drama and literature alike.
The Usurpers, was based on the diaries Willa Muir kept in Prague in the period 1945-1948, when her husband was the Director the British Institute there. Under the guise of Utopians in Slavomania, it offers acute, humorous and sometimes acerbic observations on relations among the British and between them and their Czech allies and opponents.