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Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include "Die Verwandlung " ("The Metamorphosis"), "Der Process " ("The Trial"), and "Das Schloss " ("The Castle"). The term "" has entered the English language to describe situations like those in his writing.
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Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works – most of which were published posthumously – are "Dulce et Decorum est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility", "Exposure" and "Strange Meeting".
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The Case of Wagner The Case of Wagner (German: "Der Fall Wagner" ) is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1888. Subtitled "A Musician's Problem", it has also been known as "The Wagner Case" in English.
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Fritz von Unruh Fritz von Unruh (] ; 10 May 1885 in Koblenz, Rhine Province – 28 November 1970 in Diez an der Lahn) was a German Expressionist dramatist, poet, and novelist.
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Untimely Meditations Untimely Meditations (German: "Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen" ), also translated as Unfashionable Observations and Thoughts Out Of Season) consists of four works by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, started in 1873 and completed in 1876.
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Richard Oehring Richard Oehring (16 June 1891 – 14 May 1940) was a German economist, writer and poet who became a political activist.
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Letters to Family, Friends, and Editors Letters to Family, Friends, and Editors is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters from 1900 to 1924. The majority of the letters in the volume are addressed to Max Brod. Originally published in Germany in 1959 as "Briefe 1902-1924", the collection was first published in English by Schocken Books in 1977. It was translated by Richard and Clara Winston.
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Eduard Castle Eduard Friedrich Ferdinand Castle [kastle] (November 7, 1875, Vienna - June 8, 1959, Vienna) was an Austrian-German Germanist and literary historian ("Literatur- & Theaterwissenschaftler").
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Bruno Kafka Bruno Kafka (27 September 1881 – 12 July 1931) was a German-speaking Jewish Czech politician. He was the leader from 1918 to his death of the Czechoslovak German Democratic Liberal Party.
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Carl Sternheim Carl Sternheim (born William Adolph Carl Francke; 1 April 1878 – 3 November 1942) was a German playwright and short story writer. One of the major exponents of German Expressionism, he especially satirized the moral sensibilities of the emerging German middle class during the Wilhelmine period.
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Franz Arnold Franz Arnold (1878–1960) was a German actor and playwright. He frequently collaborated with Ernst Bach after their debut play "The Spanish Fly" was a hit. He emigrated to Britain in 1933.
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The Last Laugh (poem) "The Last Laugh" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It addresses the atrocities of World War I.
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Give It Up! (short story) "Give It Up!" (German: "Gibs auf!") is a short story by Franz Kafka written between 1917 and 1923. The story was not published in Kafka's lifetime, but first appeared in "Beschreibung eines Kampfes" (1936, "Description of a Struggle", translated 1958).
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Before the Law "Before the Law" (German: "Vor dem Gesetz") is a parable contained in the novel "The Trial" (German: "Der Prozess" ), by Franz Kafka. "Before the Law" was published in Kafka's lifetime, first in the 1915 New Year's edition of the independent Jewish weekly "Selbstwehr", then in 1919 as part of the collection "Ein Landarzt" ("A Country Doctor"). "The Trial", however, was not published until 1925, after Kafka's death.
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The Burrow (short story) "The Burrow" (German: "Der Bau") is an unfinished short story by Franz Kafka in which a mole-like being burrows through an elaborate system of tunnels it has built over the course of its life. The story was published posthumously in "Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer" (Berlin, 1931). The first English translation, by Willa and Edwin Muir, was published by Martin Secker in London in 1933. It appeared in "The Great Wall of China. Stories and Reflections" (New York City: Schocken Books, 1946).
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Contemplation (short story collection) Betrachtung (published in English as Meditation or Contemplation) is a collection of eighteen short stories by Franz Kafka written between 1904 and 1912. It was Kafka's first published book, printed at the end of 1912 (with the publication year given as "1913") in the "Rowohlt Verlag" on an initiative by Kurt Wolff.
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The Warden of the Tomb The Warden of the Tomb (Der Gruftwächter) is an expressionist play by Franz Kafka. Written in the winter of 1916-1917, it was published for the first time in "Description of a Struggle".
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Heiner Müller Heiner Müller (] ; January 9, 1929 – December 30, 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postdramatic theatre.
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Siegfried Franz Siegfried Franz (1913–1998) was a German composer of film and television scores.
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Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig ( ; ] ; November 28, 1881 – February 22, 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world.
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Hugo Kaun Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun (March 21, 1863 – April 2, 1932) was a German composer, conductor, and music teacher.
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The Castle (novel) The Castle (German: "Das Schloss" ] ; also spelled "Das Schloß") is a 1926 novel by Franz Kafka. In it a protagonist known only as K. arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle. Kafka died before finishing the work, but suggested it would end with K. dying in the village, the castle notifying him on his death bed that his "legal claim to live in the village was not valid, yet, taking certain auxiliary circumstances into account, he was permitted to live and work there". Dark and at times surreal, "The Castle" is often understood to be about alienation, unresponsive bureaucracy, the frustration of trying to conduct business with non-transparent, seemingly arbitrary controlling systems, and the futile pursuit of an unobtainable goal.