Classics & Literature
A Country Doctor
Kafka’s surreal short story follows a physician summoned on a bizarre winter night, confronting impossible obligations, helplessness, guilt, and alienation
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Books by Franz Kafka
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4 books listed2 collections represented8 catalogue themes
AlienationBureaucracyIdentityAbsurdityGuiltPower
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Classics & Literature
In the Penal Colony
Kafka depicts a bizarre execution apparatus in a remote penal colony and uses it to examine punishment, obedience, bureaucracy, cruelty, and moral responsibility
Philosophy & Ideas
The Metamorphosis
Kafka transforms a family crisis into a disturbing study of work, dependence, shame, isolation and the way usefulness shapes human relationships
Philosophy & Ideas
The Trial
Kafka depicts Josef K.’s baffling arrest and struggle against an opaque legal system, turning an ordinary accusation into a nightmare of guilt and powerlessness
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