Kafka Library
(Franz Kafka)
This is a collection of short stories ranging from the years
1883-1924. Franz Kafka is considered a household name among great
literary artists. Sometimes compared to Goethe or Dante. Franz
Kafka instills an uneasiness in the reader without the over wordiness
and stiff linguistics of the period. This is an overall easy read
while still maintaining the charm and character of the time. Some
of the better-known stories include The Metamorphosis and The Penal
Colony. These stories touch on the very fragile nature of
humanity and its frightening ability to twist that nature by thought
and will alone. These stories reveal the unwholesome under the
normal, staining children, nuns, circus performers and clerks alike
with unnatural tendency and violent intention. The despair and
frustration of the characters bleeds through to the reader, inspiring
compassion and dread. The Penal Colony thrusts you into the
bowels of a torture device, a machine designed by wicked intelligence,
wielded by imbecilic men of lowly position. The harrow is designed to
scrimshaw the prisoners punishment into his entire body. The harrow
rends to the bone with glass needles discarding flesh and blood into a
ditch. For twelve hours the mechanism carves the curlicues of cursive
into the body, filled with ecstasy and agony the victims great reward
is a good lessoned learned.The Metamorphosis follows the
story of a young English man whose humdrum day to day is interrupted by
his transformation into a giant cockroach. His dismayed family attempt
to cajole, abuse, and empathize all to no avail. Gregor the cockroach
trundles about the household leaving roach droppings, knocking over
furniture and generally being disgusting and self-serving. His family
suffers disgust and embarrassment as Gregor climbs the walls spits at
the charwomen and rolls in the dust and garbage.This tale is
somehow heart warming and changes their lives for the better, the
characters gaining new independence and depth through treacherous means.This book is required in many English and literary classes, anyone with a taste for the macabre will enjoy it immensely.
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