 | Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Michael A. Fishbane, Paul R. Mendes-Flohr - Jews - 1975 - 354 pages
...case whatsoever, to that of his putative accusors. The novel begins with the narrator's statement: "Someone must have traduced Joseph K., for without...done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning" (p. 1). Between this initial statement and the execution in the last sentence of the novel, we witness... | |
 | Theodor W. Adorno - Philosophy - 1981 - 282 pages
...at the beginning of The Trial, it is said that someone must have been spreading rumours about Josef K., 'for without having done anything wrong, he was arrested one fine morning'. Nor can one throw to the winds the fact that at the beginning of The Castle, K. asks 'what village... | |
 | Jan Kott - Performing Arts - 1984 - 229 pages
...twice. Kafka is often read as foreshadowing the Holocaust. "Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning." He waited in vain for the landlady's cook to bring him breakfast as usual. Two strangers had eaten... | |
 | Clayton Koelb, Susan Noakes - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 392 pages
...precisely what the novel is determined to prevent. Consider the famous opening sentence of Der Prozeß "Someone must have traduced Joseph K., for without...having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning."42 The narrative begins not with the first event of the plot but with a first interpretation... | |
 | Michael Szenberg - Business & Economics - 1993 - 326 pages
...reaching after fact 8c reason. (From a letter by John Keats) Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. (Franz Kafka, The Trial) The great God whose seat is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals but gives... | |
 | Ernst Pawel - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 502 pages
...lucidity evokes the spirit of the new era in its very opening sentence: "Someone must have maligned Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong, he was arrested one morning." A preview of the fate of millions, of a century in which doomsday came to be an everyday... | |
 | Paul Bensimon - English language - 1993 - 200 pages
...Muir [1935], Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1953, pp. 7-11. Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K, for without having done anything wrong he...fine morning. His landlady's cook, who always brought hini his breakfast at eight o'clock, failed to appear on this occasion. That had never happened before.... | |
 | Patrick O'Neill - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 206 pages
...name for reading - which in very important ways is another name for writing. MODELS OF TRANSLATION 'Someone must have traduced Joseph K., for without...anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning,' Willa and Edwin Muir felicitously open their 1937 translation of Franz Kafka's unfinished novel The... | |
 | Mortimer Raymond Kadish - Psychology - 1994 - 266 pages
...scene to accuse K. of some wrongdoing; no outsider ever accuses him of anything in particular. Yet, "Someone must have traduced Joseph K., for without...anything wrong, he was arrested one fine morning." 4 To be a defendant in an inner trial means precisely to be arrested in the living of one's life. One... | |
 | James N. Frey - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 184 pages
...crescent tail. (From Jaws, of course. The story question raised: Who will be the shark's lunch?) • Someone must have traduced Joseph K., for without...anything wrong, he was arrested one fine morning. (The Trial. This opening sentence raises all kinds of story questions. Why was he arrested? What will... | |
| |
Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K. for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. 
