变形记(英文版) 9787544757249

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作者:(奥地利)弗朗茨·卡夫卡(Franz Kafka) 译者:乔伊丝·克里克(Joyce Crick)
目录

Biographical Preface
Introduction
Note on the Text
Note on the Translation
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of FranzKafka
MEDITATION
THE JUDGEMENT
THE METAMORPHOSIS
IN THE PENAL COLONY
LETTER TO HIS FATHER
Explanatory Notes
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In the minute description of how the torture—machine works, onecan see Kafka's own morbid preoccupation with torture.His diariescontain many gruesome fantasies about throwing himself through awindow and being cut by the glass, or having a meatslicing machinecutting into his side.These fantasies were particularly intense in October 1914, when he paused from working on The Trial to writethe story, About the same time he wrote the chapter of The Trialheaded cThe Thrasher', in which one of the guards who arrested Josef K.is punished for minor misdemeanours by being strippednaked and flogged so mercilessly that he screams with pain.A fewmonths earlier Felice Bauer had broken off her engagement to Kafkain a painful confrontation which made him feel intense guilt.Hispreoccupation with torture was strengthened by his reading, whichincluded not only Venus in Furs, as we have seen, but also the novelThe Torture Carden (1899) by the French decadent writer OctaveMirbeau.In the novel, European visitors tour a Chinese prison inwhose magnificent garden prisoners undergo a variety ofingenioustortures, it seems also to have suggested the vaguely Oriental settingof the story.Finally, the story also reflects Kafka's work in a state—run insurance office.Part of his job was to inspect safety standards infactories and try to prevent accidents being caused by dangerousmachinery.His annual reports include technically precise descriptions ofindustrial machines and illustrated accounts of the differentmutilations caused by their malfunctioning.
ISBN9787544757249
出版社译林出版社
作者弗朗茨·卡夫卡 (Franz Kafka)
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