Edwin Muir was een Orcadische dichter, romanschrijver en vertaler, bekend om zijn bijdrage, samen met zijn vrouw Willa Anderson, aan de toegankelijkheid van Franz Kafka in het Engels. Muir's werk duikt in de complexiteit van de innerlijke wereld, waarbij hij vaak thema's als identiteit en herinnering onderzoekt. Zijn uitgebreide oeuvre aan poëzie en proza, bestaande uit diverse dichtbundels en romans, biedt een diepgaande inkijk in de menselijke ervaring. Muir's kenmerkende stijl wordt gekenmerkt door zijn introspectieve kwaliteit en meditatieve toon, waardoor lezers een uniek perspectief krijgen om existentiële vraagstukken te overwegen.
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.
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
From his sheltered childhood in Orkney to the turmoil of industrial Glasgow, Edwin Muir was witness to some of the most traumatic years and events of our modern age. And yet, in his life and in his art, he was constantly haunted by the symbolic 'fable' which he longed to find beneath the surface reality of the everyday. From his dream notebooks to his travels in Eastern Europe, Muir paints an unforgettable picture of the slow and sometimes painful growth of a poet's sensibility as he comes to terms with his own nature amidst the terror and confusion of the twentieth century.
Een jongeman staat terecht zonder dat hem duidelijk wordt op welke beschuldiging.
Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossman who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents.
With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers , Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives in the intimate daily life of Germany, Broch was identifying the oceanic changes that would shortly sweep that life into the abyss. Whether he is writing about a neurotic army officer (The Romantic) , a disgruntled bookkeeper and would-be assassin (The Anarchist) , or an opportunistic war-deserter (The Realist) , Broch immerses himself in the twists of his characters' psyches, and at the same time soars above them, to produce a prophetic portrait of a world tormented by its loss of faith, morals, and reason.
