The main character in this work reminds another character about a priest from Kiev who cut a cross into his palm in order to calm a mob during the Russian Revolution.
The main character in this work reminds another character about a priest from Kiev who cut a cross into his palm in order to calm a mob during the Russian Revolution. Unlike most of the author's other works, this story was published during the author's lifetime, in Max Brod's literary magazine Arkadia. This story opens with the main character, a successful businessman, having just completed a letter to a sad and lonely friend in St. Petersburg. The main character tells his (*) father that he is engaged to Miss Frieda Brandenfeld, but his father accuses him of disgracing the memory of his dead mother. At the end of this story, Georg Bendemann carries out his father's titular pronouncement, which is "death by drowning," by jumping off a nearby bridge into the river below. FTP, name this short story by Franz Kafka.
The main character in this work reminds another character about a priest from Kiev who cut a cross into his palm in order to calm a mob during the Russian Revolution.
"The Judgment" [accept "Das Urteil"; accept "The Verdict"]