Betrachtung

Name: Betrachtung
Author: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9781787363649

Author: Franz Kafka
Language: German
Length: 38 pages
ISBN: 9781787363649
Published: 10 February 2022
Imprint: Sovereign

Franz Kafka
Kafka
alienation
existentialism
psychological
brutality
quest
mystical
transformation
absurd

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Description

Franz Kafka's poem "Betrachtung" is a contemplation of the human condition, in which he observes how people are unable to transcend their sorrows and in turn, feel victimized by them. The poem captures this sentiment with an observation that "we are victims of our thoughts.

Author

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) is the foundational voice of a whole modern territory — the literature of systems, shame, and waking dread. He specialised in situations that feel both dreamlike and bureaucratically precise: a man becomes an insect overnight; another is arrested without knowing the charge; a surveyor never reaches the castle that governs him.

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