Edwin Muir Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Am 11. November 1912 schreibt Kafka an Felice Bauer, der er ein Vierteljahr zuvor bei seinem Freund Max Brod begegnet ist - 'Die Geschichte, die ich schreibe, und die allerdings ins Endlose angelegt ist, heißt, um Ihnen einen vorläufigen Begriff zu geben 'Der Verschollene' und handelt ausschließlich in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika'. Es ist die Geschichte des sechzehnjährigen Karl Roßmann aus Prag, den seine Eltern verstoßen haben und der nun, in New York eingetroffen, auf der Suche nach Arbeit und Unterkunft ist. Wohlmeinend beginnt er seinen Weg, doch statt nach oben führt er ihn auf eine zwanghafte Weise in die Tiefe menschlicher Isolation und Not.

„Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.“ Schon der erste Satz aus Kafkas berühmter Erzählung vermittelt schlagartig die Irritation, die sich in das Verhältnis zur empirischen Wirklichkeit eingeschlichen hat, die die problematische Schnittstelle äußerer und innerer Realitäten bestimmt. Text in neuer Rechtschreibung

Der 1914/15 entstandene und schon 1925, im Jahr nach Kafkas Tod, veröffentlichte »Process« zählt zu den bedeutendsten Romanen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er liegt hier in der Fassung der Handschrift vor.

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.

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.