La metamorfosis (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Kafka, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480217115 ISBN 13: 9781480217119

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Edición revisada y actualizada (2023)

Del mito de un escritor enfermo, atormentado y poco exitoso en vida, ha emergido, poco a poco, la figura de un creador apasionado por el mundo, e interesado por las vicisitudes de su comunidad y la política de su tiempo. Así también, para el lector contemporáneo, más habituado que sus predecesores a la crueldad, el relato del exitoso y joven viajero que despierta una mañana como un escarabajo gigante, ha devenido, de sus raíces de pesadilla, en una obra maestra del humor más oscuro. Pero si el lector ríe, es solo para tomar distancia de la horrible situación a la que se enfrenta y así, evitar la repugnancia y el horror. Gregorio Samsa sufre con estoicismo cada página, sin encontrar al final, ni redención ni conocimiento en su mutación, tan inesperada como vergonzante. Se cuenta que las carcajadas de Kafka, mientras leía los episodios más escabrosos de sus relatos, sorprendían a sus amigos hasta el estupor; a lo que él explicaba que su risa era, en realidad, un muro de concreto. ¿Contra qué?, le preguntaban. Y el respondía: contra mí mismo, por supuesto.

About this title

About the Author

Franz Kafka was born to Jewish parents in Bohemia in 1883. Kafka s father was a luxury goods retailer who worked long hours and as a result never became close with his son. Kafka s relationship with his father greatly influenced his later writing and directly informed his Brief an den Vater (Letter to His Father). Kafka had a thorough education and was fluent in both German and Czech. As a young man, he was hired to work at an insurance company where he was quickly promoted despite his desire to devote his time to writing rather than insurance. Over the course of his life, Kafka wrote a great number of stories, letters, and essays, but burned the majority of his work before his death and requested that his friend Max Brod burn the rest. Brod, however, did not fulfill this request and published many of the works in the years following Kafka s death of tuberculosis in 1924. Thus, most of Kafka s works were published posthumously, and he did not live to see them recognized as some of the most important examples of literature of the twentieth century. Kafka s works are considered among the most significant pieces of existentialist writing, and he is remembered for his poignant depictions of internal conflicts with alienation and oppression. Some of Kafka s most famous works include The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN 10: 1480217115
• ISBN 13: 9781480217119
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 78