Od Ortelu k Doupěti - CDmp3

Twelve Kafkaesque miniatures. Timeless, prophetic, and human. ***** Why is Franz Kafka still modern? Why does each new generation of readers feel the urge to engage with his work again and again? The answer can be found through this short story anthology, created as a reminder of the round Kafka anniversary. For this unique project, outstanding voice actors were secured, whose original interpretations pay tribute to the greatest literary phenomenon of Prague. The selection includes twelve stories illustrating the genre diversity and timelessness of the author's work. The dates of creation cover his entire creative period. Symbolically, it is framed by a pair of texts that were not published during Kafka's lifetime: the early Description of a Struggle, regarded as the gateway to his world, and the late The Burrow, a meditative monologue written six months before his death. He writes: "It is nice to have such a burrow for the coming old age, to be under a roof when autumn begins." In addition to the famous stories The Judgment, In the Penal Colony, or A Country Doctor, the anthology also includes a number of lesser-known yet equally polished texts. Listeners will thus appreciate the humorous tone of A Report to an Academy, the impressive allegory Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk, and the expressive parable...