Grosser Lärm by Franz Kafka

"Großer Lärm" by Franz Kafka is an autobiographical prose sketch published in October 1912. The narrator sits in his room, surrounded by slamming doors and his father's storming presence, trapped in what he calls "the headquarters of noise." Unable to demand peace openly, he considers crawling "snake-like" to his sisters to beg for quiet. This brief work captures Kafka's hypersensitivity to his chaotic family household, which he described as publicly punishing his family through literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
Title Grosser Lärm
Note Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fer_L%C3%A4rm
Credits Produced by Jana Srna
Reading Level Reading ease score: 61.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject German literature
Category Text
eBook-No. 30570
Release Date
Last Update Feb 20, 2012
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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