Der Bau

Geschrieben von Franz Kafka

Erzählt von Benjamin Lucas

Kafkas unvollendetes Meisterwerk in ungekürzter Lesung. Vor den Gefahren des Lebens da draußen flüchten wir uns in unser eigenes Reich. Wir schaffen uns einen Bau, den wir genau kennen, ein System, das Kontrolle verspricht. Zumindest für einen Moment. Bis wir die Kontrolle verlieren. "Die Welt ist mannigfaltig und an schlimmen Überraschungen fehlt es niemals."

Die kurz vor Kafkas Tod entstandene Erzählung spricht mit unvergleichlicher Energie von Perfektionismus, Angst und dem Streben nach Sicherheit. "Am Ende macht man schon wieder neue Gänge, man, alter Maulwurf." (Franz Kafka an Milena Jesenká)

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Author's Republic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16. Nov. 2021
• ISBN: 9781667934280

Franz Kafka

Born in Prague in 1883, the son of a self-made Jewish merchant, Franz Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked in insurance. He published little during his lifetime and lived his life in relative obscurity. He was forced to retire from work in 1917 after being diagnosed with tuberculosis, a debilitating illness which dogged his final years. When he died in 1924 he bequeathed the – mainly unfinished – manuscripts of his novels, stories, letters and diaries to his friend the writer Max Brod with the strict instruction that they should be destroyed. Brod ignored Kafka’s wishes and organised the publication of his work, including The Trial, which appeared in 1925. It is through Brod’s efforts that Kafka is now regarded as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century.