Edwin Muir Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Kafka schrieb den Roman "Amerika", der die Reihe seiner großen Romane eröffnet, aus der "Sehnsucht nach Freiheit und fernen Ländern."

This edition allows readers to engage with the original texts of Franz Kafka's stories, free from the alterations made by his friend and editor Max Brod after his death. It compiles all writings by Kafka that can be classified as "stories," "narratives," "narrative pieces," "prose poems," or "fragments," translated directly from the original texts without filters or edits. The selection criteria focused on works belonging to the realm of fiction, excluding autobiographical writings and other texts where Kafka addresses personal situations from a non-literary perspective. This carefully prepared edition reflects a recent trend in German-speaking countries to publish Kafka's manuscripts in facsimile, presenting a chronological arrangement that showcases the creative evolution of this 20th-century classic.

Das Besondere an Christian Brückner ist, dass man eigentlich bei jedem Hörbuch mit ihm das Gefühl hat, seine Stimme würde gerade zu diesem Text, zu diesem Stil ganz besonders gut passen. Und eben das scheint die Kunst dieses außergewöhnlichen Sprechers zu sein. Franz Kafkas Der Prozeß macht da keine Ausnahme. Man hat den Eindruck, die beklemmende Geschichte des Josef K., der durch eine undurchschaubare Anklage und die Konfrontation mit einem mysteriösen Gerichtsapparat nach und nach aus der Bahn seines geordneten, kleinen Lebens getragen wird, in den über acht Stunden des Hörbuchs neu zu entdecken. Zum Beispiel die komischen Seiten des Romans -- als Höhepunkt K.s Treffen mit dem Maler Titorelli und der bedrohlichen Mädchenbande vor dessen Tür. Oder die erotische Komponente, und wie es Josef K. im Verlauf der Geschichte immer mehr zu den Frauen hinzieht, als würde durch sein Angeklagtsein ein lange unterdrücktes Verlangen frei. Fazit: Der Prozeß als Hörbuch ist eine wunderbare Gelegenheit, Kafkas berühmtesten Roman wieder zu entdecken. --Christian Stahl

With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers , Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives in the intimate daily life of Germany, Broch was identifying the oceanic changes that would shortly sweep that life into the abyss. Whether he is writing about a neurotic army officer (The Romantic) , a disgruntled bookkeeper and would-be assassin (The Anarchist) , or an opportunistic war-deserter (The Realist) , Broch immerses himself in the twists of his characters' psyches, and at the same time soars above them, to produce a prophetic portrait of a world tormented by its loss of faith, morals, and reason.

From his sheltered childhood in Orkney to the turmoil of industrial Glasgow, Edwin Muir was witness to some of the most traumatic years and events of our modern age. And yet, in his life and in his art, he was constantly haunted by the symbolic 'fable' which he longed to find beneath the surface reality of the everyday. From his dream notebooks to his travels in Eastern Europe, Muir paints an unforgettable picture of the slow and sometimes painful growth of a poet's sensibility as he comes to terms with his own nature amidst the terror and confusion of the twentieth century.

Franz Kafka's enigmatic, deadpan, and deeply pessimistic stories are central to literary modernism. In 'The Metamorphosis', the estrangement of everyday life becomes corporealized when Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant bug and wonders how he is going to get to work on time. Kafka inverts the implied degradation of a man's transformation into an animal in 'A Report of the Academy', an ape's address to a group of scientists.