Franz Kafka - Parábolas e Fragmentos

Kafka's parables and a selection of fragments, with translation and preface by João Barrento, and drawings by Kafka.

"[...] our natural tendency when faced with a Kafka parable, and with its enigmatic nature, is to follow the hermeneutical illusion, that Western desire to explain everything and reduce it to a "meaning" - even if it is to conclude, after much interpretation and attempts to explain, that the inexplicable cannot be explained. This is what Kafka himself says through the mouth of an undefined narrator, in the meta-parable that opens this volume: "All these parables ultimately mean that the inexplicable is inexplicable, and we already knew that."" (João Barrento, in the preface)