kafka franz investigations of a dog
Kafka Franz Investigations of a Dog
'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
496 Руб.Kafka Franz The Burrow and Other Stories
A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fiction Strange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. Some are less than a page long, others more substantial; all were unpublished in his lifetime. These matchless short works range from the gleeful miniature horror 'Little Fable' to the off-kilter humour of 'Investigations of a Dog', and from the elaborate waking nightmare of 'Building the Great Wall of China' to the creeping unease of 'The Burrow', where a nameless creature's labyrinthine hiding place turns into a trap of fear and paranoia.
2607 Руб.Kafka F. Investigations of a Dog
How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
229 Руб.Kafka F. Investigations of a Dog
How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
229 Руб.Canetti Elias Kafka's Other Trial
In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fiancee Felice broke off their engagement in a humiliating public tribunal, surrounded by her friends and family, and the other woman with whom Kafka had recently fallen in love. Broken and bereft, Kafka - at the height of his writing powers - turned the experience into his masterpiece, The Trial, where his lovers became the faceless prosecutors of Josef K. In Kafka's Other Trial, Canetti explores each letter that Kafka wrote to his fiancee, from their first tender moments together to his final letter and his refusal to reconcile. In this affecting book, he offers moving insights into the creativity of Franz Kafka and the torment he suffered as a man, a lover, and a writer.
2570 Руб.Kafka Franz Letters to Milena
Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech, and their relationship quickly developed into a deep attachment. Such was his feeling for her that Kafka showed her his diaries and, in doing so, laid bare his heart and his conscience. While at times Milena's 'genius for living' gave Kafka new life, it ultimately exhausted him, and their relationship was to last little over two years. In 1924 Kafka died in a sanatorium near Vienna, and Milena died in 1944 at the hands of the Nazis, leaving these letters as a moving record of their relationship.
2384 Руб.von Kleist Heinrich Michael Kohlhaas
'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz Kafka Michael Kohlhaas Has Been Wronged. He Will Have Justice. Based on the real life of an ordinary horse-dealer cheated by a government official, Michael Kohlhaas is the darkly comical and magnificently weird story of one man's alienation from a corrupt legal system. When his attempts to claim his rights are thwarted by bureaucracy and nepotism, Kohlhaas vows to take justice into his own - increasingly bloody - hands. Will he be remembered as a dangerous enemy of the peace, or a vigilante hero? Praised by Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Susan Sontag, Roberto Bolano, Werner Herzog, and J. M. Coetzee, this is one of the most influential tales in German literature. In this vital new translation by the renowned poet Michael Hofmann, Kleist's bizarre, brutal and maddening story is urgent today.
2356 Руб.Kafka Franz He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka (riverrun ed)
This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, the minor works that are actually major. Joshua Cohen has produced a frame that refuses distinctions between what is a story, a letter, a workplace memo and a diary entry, also including popular favourites like The Bucket Rider, The Penal Colony and The Burrow. Here we see Kafka's preoccupations in writing about animals, messiah variations, food and exercise, each in his signature style. Cohen's selection emphasises the stately structure of utterly coherent logic, within an utterly incoherent illogical world, showing how Kafka harnessed the humblest grammar to metamorphic power until the predominant effect ceases to be the presence of an unreliable narrator, but the absence of the universe's only reliable narrator. Who is God.
2670 Руб.Kafka Franz Metamorphosis
"A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul." Franz Kafka Metamorphosis tells the tale of Gregor Samsa, a young salesman, who wakes up one day to find he has turned into "a kind of giant bug". Samsa has been a model of virtue for years, single- handedly supporting his parents and sister, but suddenly he finds himself an outcast in his own home, facing a world in which he no longer has a place. Both harrowing and humorous, Metamorphosis is a strange, subtle and moving story which everyone should read.
880 Руб.Roth Philip Reading Myself and Others
Philip Roth's writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest chroniclers of post-war American life. Collected here are some of the finest interviews, essays and articles discussing his own fiction and the range of controversies that it sparked, including his long interview with the Paris Review. Here too are Roth's writings on American fiction, Milan Kundera, baseball, and his deep admiration for Franz Kafka. Coursing through each of these pieces is the Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness that have defined Roth's writing for half a century.
3387 Руб.Kafka Franz Franz Kafka. Ein Landarzt
»Immer mehr von Schnee uberhauft, immer zweckloser werdend, stand ich da.« Einige von Kat Menschik illustrierte Bucher sind inzwischen Kult – nun gestaltet sie eine eigene Reihe: Werke der Weltliteratur und andere Lieblingstexte, in Szene gesetzt von Kat Menschik. Ein eisig kalter, schneeverwehter Winter; ein Landarzt »in gro?er Verlegenheit«. Ein Notfalleinsatz steht an, aber sein Kutschpferd verendet gerade in der Kalte. Vergeblich schickt der Landarzt Rosa, sein Dienstmadchen, ins Dorf, um ein neues Pferd zu leihen, doch keines ist zu haben. Plotzlich taucht ein ratselhafter Pferdeknecht mit zwei prachtigen kraftigen Tieren auf und spannt sie an. Statt aber auf dem Kutschbock Platz zu nehmen, sturzt er sich auf Rosa, klatscht in die Hande – und bevor der Landarzt seiner Dienerin zur Hilfe eilen kann, rei?en die Pferde ihn in der Kutsche mit sich … So der Anfang der Titelgeschichte von »Ein Landarzt. Kleine Erzahlungen«, die 1919 bei Kurt Wolff erschienen sind. Den anderen Figuren des Bandes geht es nicht viel besser. Ob z. B. in »Auf der Galerie«, »Vor dem Gesetz«, im »Bericht fur eine Akademie«, oder beim Odradek in »Sorge eines Hausvaters« – Kafkas Figuren werden getrieben von seltsamen Geschicken und sie tragen dunkle Geheimnisse in sich. Freilich geht es in diesen Geschichten alles andere als blutleer zu – Kat Menschik gibt mit ihren farbenprachtig schillernden Bildern eine grandiose Interpretation des ersten Erzahlbandes von Franz Kafka. Grandiose Texte, feinste Ausstattungen, ungewohnliche Materialien, uberraschende Interpretationen. Alle Bande im selben Format, alle Bande mit dreiseitigem Farbschnitt – aber jeder Band in anderer Ausstattung und jeder Band mit eigener Bildsprache. Ein Fest fur Geist und Sinne.
5898 Руб.Auster Paul The Music of Chance
'By the time Nashe understood what was happening to him, he was past the point of wanting it to end . . .' Paul Auster fuses Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka and The Brothers Grimm in this brilliant and unsettling parable. Following the death of his father, Jim Nashe takes to the open road in pursuit of a 'life of freedom'. But as the money runs out he finds that his sense of disillusionment has only been compounded by his year on the road. However, after picking up Pozzi, a hitchhiking gambler, Nashe finds himself drawn into a dangerous game of high-stakes poker with two eccentric and reclusive millionaires.
1881 Руб.Kafka Franz The Essential Kafka
Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a relentless atmosphere of disorientation. Superficially about bureaucracy, it is in the last resort a description of the absurdity of 'normal' human nature. Still more enigmatic is The Castle. Is it an allegory of a quasi-feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject? The search by a central European Jew for acceptance into a dominant culture? A spiritual quest for grace or salvation? An individual's struggle between his sense of independence and his need for approval? Is it all of these things? And K? Is he opportunist, victim, or an outsider battling against elusive authority? Finally, in his fables, Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance, and no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional uncertainties and anxieties.
999 Руб.Benjamin Walter One-Way Street and Other Writings
Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including 'One-Way Street', his dreamlike, aphoristic observations of urban life in Weimar Germany; 'Unpacking My Library', a delightful meditation on book-collecting; the confessional 'Hashish in Marseille'; and 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', his seminal essay on how technology changes the way we appreciate art. Also including writings on subjects ranging from Proust to Kafka, violence to surrealism, this is the essential volume on one of the most prescient critical voices of the modern age. Contains: 'Unpacking My Library'; 'One-Way Street'; 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'; 'Brief History of Photography'; 'Hashish in Marseille'; 'On the Critique of Violence'; 'The Job of the Translator'; 'Surrealism'; 'Franz Kafka' and 'Picturing Proust'.
4098 Руб.Suskind Patrick The Pigeon
Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick Suskind's tense, disturbing follow-up to the bestselling Perfume. The novella tells the story of a day in the meticulously ordered life of bank security guard Jonathan Noel, who has been hiding from life since his wife left him for her Tunisian lover. When Jonathan opens his front door on a day he believes will be just like any other, he encounters not the desired empty hallway but an unwelcome, diabolical intruder
2349 Руб.Henry O., Брэдбери Рэй, Киплинг Редьярд Джозеф Dog Stories
This anthology rounds up a pack of vivid and colourful tales by a wide range of writers from Chekhov, Chesterton and Kafka to Patricia Highsmith and Doris Lessing. The unforgettable canines gathered here include Kipling’s heroically faithful ‘Garm’, Bret Harte’s irrepressible scoundrel of a ‘yaller dog’ and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull who lives in a block of flats for dogs in Jonathan Lethem’s ‘Ava’s Apartment’. Here are stories which touchingly illuminate the dog’s role in the emotional lives of humans, such as Tobias Wolff ’s ‘Her Dog’, where a widower shares his grief for his wife with her grieving pet. Here, too, are humorous glimpses of the canine point of view, from O. Henry’s tale of a dissatisfied lapdog’s escape to P. G. Wodehouse’s cheerfully naive watchdog who simply wants everybody to get along. These writers and others – Ray Bradbury, James Thurber and Penelope Lively among them – offer imaginative, lyrical and empathetic portraits of man and woman’s most faithful friend.
4862 Руб.»Immer mehr von Schnee uberhauft, immer zweckloser werdend, stand ich da.« Einige von Kat Menschik illustrierte Bucher sind inzwischen Kult – nun gestaltet sie eine eigene Reihe: Werke der Weltliteratur und andere Lieblingstexte, in Szene gesetzt von Kat Menschik. Ein eisig kalter, schneeverwehter Winter; ein Landarzt »in gro?er Verlegenheit«. Ein Notfalleinsatz steht an, aber sein Kutschpferd verendet gerade in der Kalte. Vergeblich schickt der Landarzt Rosa, sein Dienstmadchen, ins Dorf, um ein neues Pferd zu leihen, doch keines ist zu haben. Plotzlich taucht ein ratselhafter Pferdeknecht mit zwei prachtigen kraftigen Tieren auf und spannt sie an. Statt aber auf dem Kutschbock Platz zu nehmen, sturzt er sich auf Rosa, klatscht in die Hande – und bevor der Landarzt seiner Dienerin zur Hilfe eilen kann, rei?en die Pferde ihn in der Kutsche mit sich … So der Anfang der Titelgeschichte von »Ein Landarzt. Kleine Erzahlungen«, die 1919 bei Kurt Wolff erschienen sind. Den anderen Figuren des Bandes geht es nicht viel besser. Ob z. B. in »Auf der Galerie«, »Vor dem Gesetz«, im »Bericht fur eine Akademie«, oder beim Odradek in »Sorge eines Hausvaters« – Kafkas Figuren werden getrieben von seltsamen Geschicken und sie tragen dunkle Geheimnisse in sich. Freilich geht es in diesen Geschichten alles andere als blutleer zu – Kat Menschik gibt mit ihren farbenprachtig schillernden Bildern eine grandiose Interpretation des ersten Erzahlbandes von Franz Kafka. Grandiose Texte, feinste Ausstattungen, ungewohnliche Materialien, uberraschende Interpretationen. Alle Bande im selben Format, alle Bande mit dreiseitigem Farbschnitt – aber jeder Band in anderer Ausstattung und jeder Band mit eigener Bildsprache. Ein Fest fur Geist und Sinne.
