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Kafka’s big themes are law, crime, guilt, punishment, and judgment: both the judgment that comes from state authorities and that from more personal qualities, including our own families, and even ourselves. ‘The Judgment’ is, like much of Kafka’s writing, highly autobiographical.
Kafka wrote "The Judgment" in a single sitting on September 22, 1912. In later writings, he described the creative outburst of "The Judgment" as “the total opening of body and soul,” saying that “the story evolved as a true birth, covered with filth and slime.”
- Franz Kafka
- 1913
Read the short story of a man who receives a letter from his friend in Russia and faces a harsh judgement from his father. Learn about the themes, symbols, and literary devices in this classic work of existentialism and absurdism.
George stood close beside his father, who had let his head with its tousled white hair sink onto his chest. “George,” said his father faintly, without moving. George knelt down immediately alongside his father. He saw the enormous pupils in his father’s tired face staring right at him from the corners of his eyes.
The Judgement It was on a Sunday morning, when spring was at its best. Georg Bendemann,* a young businessman, was sitting in his own room on the first floor of one of the low, flimsily-built houses extending in a long row down the riverside, their height and colour almost the only difference between them. He had just finished a letter to ...
Learn about the composition, themes, and paradoxes of Franz Kafka's short story "The Judgment", published in 1913. Explore the complex relationship between Georg Bendemann and his father, and the mysterious letter to his friend in Russia.
The autobiographical significance of old Bendemann emerging as his son's judge is obvious. In most of Kafka's stories, though to varying degrees, an overpowering father figure plays a decisive role.
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