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.
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.
This volume is a celebration of the life and work of Willa Muir.
First published in 1935, The Trial is a classic story of totalitarianism, sadism, and hysteria. With a labyrinth of meanings, author Franz Kafka explores the dark lives of killers.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELLOne morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In Metamorphosis and the other famous st
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.