Kafka: A Very Short Introduction [Audiobook] download free by Ritchie Robertson
- Listen audiobook: Kafka: A Very Short Introduction
- Author: Ritchie Robertson
- Release date: 2005/5/3
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780192804556
- Rating: 9.86 of 10
- Votes: 205
- Review by: Rebekah Florence
- Review rating: 8.52 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/1
- Duration: 1H53M30S in 256 kbps (30.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-16
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WavPack, MPEG4, WAV, WMA, MPC, FLAC, MOD, MP3 (compression ZIP, RAR, AZW4, TAR.LZO, 7Z)
- Total pages original book: 152
- Includes a PDF summary of 17 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 13M5S (3.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect ...' So begins Franz Kafka's most famous story Metamorphosis.Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the twentieth century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known being The Transformation. All three of his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and The Man Who Disappeared [America], were published after his death and helped to found Kafka's reputation as a uniquely perceptive interpreter of the twentiethcentury.Kafka's fiction vividly evokes bizarre situations: a commercial traveller is turned into an insect, a banker is arrested by a mysterious court, a fasting artist starves to death in the name of art, a singing mouse becomes the heroine of her nation. Attending both to Kafka's crisis-ridden life and to the subtleties of his art, Ritchie Robertson shows how his work explores such characteristically modern themes as the place of the body in culture, the power of institutions over people, and thepossibility of religion after Nietzsche had proclaimed 'the death of God'. The result is an up-to-date and accessible portrait of a fascinating author which shows us ways to read and make sense of his perplexing and absorbing work.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: From C 1900 -, Literary Studies: General, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 7.88 USD
- Dimensions: 111x175x10mm
- Weight: 119g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Oxford, United Kingdom
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