Imagined Selves
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This volume is a celebration of the life and work of Willa Muir.
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.





This volume is a celebration of the life and work of Willa Muir.
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.
Een jongeman staat terecht zonder dat hem duidelijk wordt op welke beschuldiging.
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
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.