A Very Short Introduction - Kafka
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- نویسنده : Ritchie Robertson
توضیحات
The bare facts of Franz Kafka’s life seem ordinary, even banal. He was born on 3 July 1883 in Prague, where his parents, Hermann and Julie Kafka, kept a small shop selling fancy goods, umbrellas and the like. He was the eldest of six children, including two brothers who died in infancy and three sisters who all outlived him. He studied law at university and after a year of practice started work, first for his local branch of an insurance firm based in Trieste, then after a year for the state-run Workers’ Accident Insurance Institute, where his job was not only to handle claims for injury at work but to forestall such accidents by visiting factories and examining their equipment and their safety precautions. In his spare time he was writing prose sketches and stories, which were published in magazines and as small books, beginning with Meditation in 1912. Contents Acknowledgements viii List of illustrations ix 1 Life and myth 1 2 Reading Kafka 26 3 Bodies 46 4 Institutions 67 5 The last things 104 References 126 Further reading 127 Index 132
