![]() Just like in Kafka's novels "The Trial" or "The Castle", there seems to be a higher order but it is never graspable to the protagonists. One single event sets things into motion and the main characters can't do anything about it. The stories seem like dream scenarios or like fables with a deeper meaning, but that meaning is never revealed. In most cases, a first-person narrator factually talks about a strange or scary situation in his life, which either leads to a tragic end or to no end at all. One will quickly realise that Kafka's stories are indeed hard to digest. This is often the case in texts by the Prague writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924) and it is also the case in the stories of "Meistererzählungen".Īmong others, we see a lonely Russian warden, living his miserable life in a railway station, two men who are desperately trying to prove the existence of a gigantic mole, a country doctor who is called to help a dying boy in the middle of the night, and an explorer who encounters a strange torture machine in a penal colony. His entire life has changed without his knowledge and suddenly turned into a nightmare. It is about a young man, who has turned into a gigantic insect overnight and is avoided by his family from then on. " When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." That is the beginning of the world-famous story "The Metamorphosis" (1915). Manesse Bibliothek der Weltliteratur, 1978
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