America (Kafka)

… In August 1912, he met Felice Bauer, and in one night in September, he wrote the short story The Judgement, in which his aged father is suddenly sentenced to death by drowning, marking his breakthrough into his own literary world. He also completed his famous work The Metamorphosis, in which a young fabric salesman, Gregor, transforms into a giant insect and gradually dies as his family shuns him, at the end of the same year. He also continued writing the novel Amerika, an account of the young Karl's travels in America, but he was unable to reconcile his desire to write with his desire to marry, and over the next five years he was engaged and then broken off twice to Felice, leaving behind a voluminous string of letters. With these anguish as his foundation, he wrote most of Der Prozess in 1914, and also completed the short story In the Penal Colony. …

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…　12年8月フェリーツェ･バウアーFelice Bauerに出あい，老いた父親に突然溺死の刑を宣告される短編《判決》を9月の一夜に書きあげて，独自の文学世界への突破口を開いた。若い布地販売員グレゴールが巨大な虫に変身し，しだいに家族にうとまれて死ぬ著名な作品《変身》も同年末に完成，カール少年のアメリカ放浪記，長編《アメリカ》も書きすすめられたが，書くことと結婚への願望は両立し得ず，フェリーツェとは以後の5年間に2度婚約と解消をくりかえし，大部の手紙が残された。こうした懊悩を基底にして14年には《審判Der Prozess》の大部分が執筆され，短編《流刑地にて》も完成。…

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