Meditation by franz kafka vitalis this slim volume was given to me as a present about two or three years ago by bender after his trip to prague, while he was in london. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible sociobureaucratic powers. Buy a cheap copy of betrachtung book by franz kafka. It was kafka s first published book, printed at the end of 1912 with the publication year given as 19 in the rowohlt verlag on an initiative by kurt wolff. Dark, absurdist, and existential, his stories and novels concern the struggles of troubled individuals to survive in an impersonal, bureaucratic world. With the exception of kafka s three novels the trial, the castle and amerika, this collection includes all of ka. The edition i have calls the book meditation, from the description of the book on good reads it is the same book. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.
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