{"id":55,"date":"2013-05-28T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lidaprypchan.org\/?p=55"},"modified":"2015-06-26T19:40:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T19:40:53","slug":"the-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lidaprypchan.org\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"The Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By\u00a0Lida Prypchan<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Story by Franz Kafka<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“The Judgment” is a story by the Prague-born author Franz Kafka, creator of a theme critical to the literature of our time, the author of the absurd: the Kafkaesque world is represented by K (protagonist in the novels), a solicitous employee that takes everything lightly and remains empty handed. \u00a0Yes, Kafka’s world is the world of foreign ministries and old, musky, dark-roomed offices where the most insignificant man of the town must carry the imperial message to the castle, with no hope of arrival, because he will have to pass through doors, stairways, endless corridors and so forth until passing through other corridors, doors and stairways. \u00a0This is Kafka.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Anyone who knows a little about his life will know about his relationship with his father, who had a special influence on his life and work. Franz, a weak and sickly child, grew up and was educated by a strong and tyrannical father whose demands regarding his son were impossible to fulfill. \u00a0As a result of his father\u2019s anti-pedagogical methods, Franz developed feelings of guilt and defeat.<\/span><\/div>\n
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To finish this introduction, it is worth asking why I have chosen his story “The Judgment” and not another. \u00a0Well, simply because it is in \u201cThe Judgment\u201d where Kafka reflects most deeply the traumatic relationship with his father: his judge, the one who imposed sentences. \u00a0And the most important thing is that the father condemns him for is an insignificant act, a treason that Franz did not commit.<\/span><\/div>\n
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What is this story about? \u00a0Georg Bendermann (Franz) lives in Poland and is in charge of his father\u2019s business. His father is old and is also depressed by the death of his wife, which occurred two years previously. \u00a0He lives with his son, locks himself in his dark room and takes little care of his health. \u00a0Georg runs the business intelligently, achieves large profits and to complete his picture of happiness is engaged to a girl from a well-to-do family. \u00a0He has a friend who many years before went to Russia as he was not impressed by the job prospects in his homeland: Poland. \u00a0He goes to Russia and, although at first things went wonderfully well, as time progresses his economic situation becomes terribly bad. \u00a0In addition, he is a fussy young loner who does not aspire to marry. Georg maintains a relationship with his friend and decides to write him a letter announcing his marriage, since he will not find out by other means. \u00a0He finishes the letter, crosses the hall, and enters his father\u2019s room. \u00a0The father has known the friend for many years, and as a consequence Georg speaks to his father with the intention of telling him what he plans to do. \u00a0On one hand, you betrayed your friend who needs you and he dies of hunger in Russia, and you leave me, your father, prostrate in a bed while you go out for walks with your fiancee, that filthy sow, and if \u00a0I see her with you, I\u2019ll tear her from your arm. \u00a0You did what you did because she lifted her skirts and of course, you wanted to peacefully enjoy her, but first you had to get rid of all of us. \u00a0It doesn\u2019t matter, but listen well to what I\u2019m going to say: \u00a0I now order you to drown yourself. \u00a0\u201cGeorg exited the room as if he had been expelled from it, his father\u2019s condemnation reverberating in his ears, his eyes wide. \u00a0He left the house, crossed the street and looked for water, in the same manner that a hungry man looks for food. \u00a0He leaned heavily on the railing, waiting for a bus to pass by so that no one would hear the noise made by him falling into the water, and before so jumping he said these final words: \u00a0“My dear parents, despite everything I have always loved you”. \u00a0And at that moment an interminable line of vehicles passed over the bridge.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0 By\u00a0Lida Prypchan \u00a0 Story by Franz Kafka \u00a0 “The Judgment” is a story by the Prague-born author Franz Kafka, creator of a theme critical to the literature of our time, the author of the absurd: the Kafkaesque world is represented by K (protagonist in the novels), a solicitous employee that takes everything lightly and … <\/p>\n

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