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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