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The Judgement
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781918305524
Publisher: Lost Book Project
Published: Nov 11 2025
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Judgement (Das Urteil) by Franz Kafka is a powerful and haunting short story that marked the emergence of his mature literary voice. Written in a single night in 1912, it tells of a young man whose ordinary conversation with his father turns into a confrontation that ends in condemnation and death. In this brief yet explosive tale, Kafka transforms the domestic into the mythic, exploring the deep bonds of guilt, obedience, and authority that shape human life. His calm, exact language reveals the violence hidden within love and the fragility of identity under judgment.
This English translation preserves Kafka's clarity and rhythm, presenting one of his most psychologically precise and emotionally charged works. The father's outburst, at once intimate and divine, exposes the collapse of understanding between generations and the unspoken laws that govern family and faith. Kafka's portrayal of the conflict between self and authority anticipates the moral and existential crises that would define modern literature.
The Judgement remains essential reading for those drawn to Kafka's vision of guilt, power, and submission. It stands beside The Trial and The Metamorphosis as one of his defining achievements, a story that fuses realism with dream logic to reveal the hidden mechanics of conscience. A cornerstone of twentieth-century fiction, this edition offers readers a faithful and vivid English rendering of Kafka's original text.
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