La Metamorfosis (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Kafka, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1547111208 ISBN 13: 9781547111206

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

La metamorfosis es, probablemente, uno de los libros más famosos de Franz Kafka. Fue publicada en octubre del año 1915 en la revista Die weissen Blätter, dirigida por René Schickele, en la editorial Kurt Wolff de Leipzig y se perfila, junto a El proceso, como una de las piezas clave en el conjunto de la obra del autor. Poco tiempo después, en noviembre, la misma editorial decidió publicarla como libro independiente dentro de su colección "Der Jüngste Tag". Se trata de una novela que nos relata la vida de un ser humano convertido en un insecto y cómo esa transformación cambia sus costumbres y sus relaciones con el resto de su familia. Este individuo se llama Gregorio Samsa y vive en una casa con sus padres y su hermana. Es por está razón que leyendo esta novela no solo se respira un aire marcadamente existencialista, sino que también se ve un gran componente autobiográfico.

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1547111208
• ISBN 13: 9781547111206
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 38