The murder (Kafka)
The murder is a story by Franz Kafka published in 1917 . It is the earlier version of the text A Fratricide , which appeared in the volume A Country Doctor .
The lyrics of The Murder and A Fratricide differ only slightly.
Brief description
A man called “Schmar” by Kafka waits in a dark alley with a knife for “Wese” while “Pallas” watches him from a window. When Wese appears, he is stabbed by Schmar; this is discharged.
Note
For a more detailed table of contents and analysis, reference is made to the corresponding remarks on A Fratricide .
expenditure
- The murder . In: The new seal. An almanac . Kurt Wolff, Leipzig, 1918 [published in 1917]. (Initial release)
- A fratricide . In: Franz Kafka: A country doctor. Little stories. Kurt Wolff, Munich and Leipzig, 1920.
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Published during his lifetime: Ein Damenbrevier | Conversation with the prayer | Conversation with the drunk | The plane in Brescia | Richard and Samuel | Big noise | Contemplation | The judgment | The stoker | The transformation | Before the law | The murder | A fratricide | In the penal colony | A country doctor | The bucket rider | Josephine, the singer or the people of the mice | A starving artist
Published posthumously (selection): Images of the defense of a court | Description of a fight | Wedding preparations in the country | Little soul | The little ruin dweller | Among my classmates | Introduction sketch for Richard and Samuel | The urban world | A young ambitious student | Introductory lecture on jargon | Memories of the Kaldabahn | The village school teacher | Blumfeld, an older bachelor | The crypt guardian | The bridge | An intersection | The knock on the yard gate | The hunter Gracchus | When building the Great Wall of China | An everyday confusion | The neighbor | From the Jewish theater | The exam | The vulture | Prometheus | The Zürau aphorisms | Letter to the father | The great swimmer | Our town is… | Homecoming | On the question of laws | The Truth About Sancho Panza | The city arms | The helmsman | Little fable | In our synagogue | The silence of the sirens | Poseidon | The drafting of troops | Researches of a Dog | The couple | Advocate | Give up | The Under Prosecutor | The process | The castle | The missing | The departure | The construction