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Detalhes do Produto

Sinopse

After Franz Kafka's death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of literary disobedience, his executor refused to agree to Kafka's wish that his great mass of unpublished fiction be destroyed. This fiction included not only The Castle and The Trial but also the amazingly varied, chilling and ingenious short works collected in The Burrow and Other Stories. These tales, some little more than a page, others much more substantial, are among the greatest works of Central European literature. They vary from the tiny and horrifying 'Little Fable' to the elaborate waking nightmares of 'Building the Great Wall of China' and the title story 'The Burrow', in which an unidentified creature describes its creation of an endlessly elaborate burrow to protect itself from unidentified enemies, but with every trap or tunnel only creating further terrors and uncertainty.

Autor

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka nasceu em Praga, capital do antigo império Austro-Húngaro, em 1883. Formado em Direito, empregou-se numa companhia de seguros, trabalho que afirmava detestar, mas que lhe permitia subsistir e dedicar-se à escrita. Em vida, viu apenas sete livros seus publicados, entre os quais A Metamorfose, em 1915. Em 1917 é-lhe diagnosticada a doença que viria a vitimá-lo em 1924: tuberculose. Kafka legou os direitos autorais da sua obra ao amigo Max…

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