By Franz Kafka with music from his Prague circle by Leoš Janáček, Josef Suk and Bohuslav Martinů.
Franz Kafka - Tales
August Diehl, recitation
Ulf Schneider, violin
Stephan Imorde, piano
Tales:
- The Judgment
- First suffering
- A hunger artist
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928): Sonata for violin and piano
Josef Suk (1874-1935): 4 pieces for violin and piano op.17
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959): Arabesques for violin and piano
Franz Kafka's stories form the core of his immortal literary work. The wealth of invention, which ranges from absurd bureaucratic situations to peculiarly cheerful animal tales, is unique and unrivaled. Dark anxiety and sometimes liberating humor lie close together in his famous stories "The Judgement" or "The Hunger Artist".
"Frightening, dreamlike, treacherous and morbid, the most peculiarly haunting entertainment imaginable." Thomas Mann
Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883, studied law at the German University of Prague after leaving school and received his doctorate in 1906. An insurance lawyer by trade, Kafka usually devoted himself to his writing at night. His first major story, The Judgement (1912), marked the breakthrough to his own narrative style, which is characterized by precise, realistic descriptions of details and a fantastic, grotesque alienation of reality. Kafka's unmistakable style is described by the specially coined term 'Kafkaesque'. Kafka died of tuberculosis in Kierling near Klosterneuburg, Austria, in 1924 at the age of 40.
