Brandon Carpenter từ Dare Sari, Isfahan, Iran

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05/03/2024

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2019-10-08 23:31

Trò Chuyện Khoa Học Và Giáo Dục (Dự kiến phát hành 22/4/2016) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Văn Tuấn

It has been years since Kafka touched my life. And reading this brilliant summary of the life and work of Franz Kafka brought all of those memories back to me, free of the teenage angst and paranoia that accompanied my first experiences with works like The Trail. I think there is a level on which Kafka can touch people that is really universal. Many of us at least go through a period of feeling alienated from our bodies, our families. Many of us feel spied upon, persecuted for no identifiable reason, and/or forever struggling towards a castle that may never exist. These feelings for me go hand in glove with my high school experience. Parts of this graphic novel felt like a sketch book I would have wanted to produce in those days, had I possessed one tenth the literary talent of Mr. Mairowitz or the artistic talent of Mr. Crumb. But what made this piece interesting as an adult was the historical and cultural context that it put all of Kafka's work. The quote from Kafka about not having anything in common himself has a particular appeal. However, when understood in full it is a history lesson. Kafka said: "What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself." This is the Kafka was a cultural product of the Jewish ghettos, but who himself did little to outwardly embrace this identity. Kafka was living in the decline of once-great and increasingly collapsing muddled bureaucratic empire. The Hapsburg Empire would fall in Kafka's lifetime and a modern Czech identity would emerge in his place. I had no idea how political Kafka's choice to speak and write in German was during his lifetime. Also of great interest was the strained relationship with his father that seemed to consume Kafka's psyche. Yet I think my favorite bit of this ode to Kafka was actually the epilogue in which I came to understand how Kafka came to be such a literacy icon. What does Kafkaesque mean anyway? Why do we turn a person who lived in a place and time into a motif? Kafka was much more than a literary minor key. This piece reminds us of that.

Người đọc Brandon Carpenter từ Dare Sari, Isfahan, Iran

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.