Kafka
The Metamorphosis
1915
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
O nuvelă-pivot a modernității. Gregor Samsa se trezește transformat — și descoperă că groaza familiei nu e produsă de noua sa formă, ci de pierderea utilității sale economice. Kafka surprinde aici, fără un singur cuvânt în plus, condiția omului redus la funcție.
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- 19.11.2023
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„calm consideration was much better than rushing to desperate conclusions.”
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„if we people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of business considerations.”
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„there simply is no time of year to do no business at all.”
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„It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence and concentration.”
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„they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight of any thought for the future.”
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„he knew full well, right from the first day of his new life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely strict with him.”
