The Judgment

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"The Judgment" is a short story by Franz Kafka that explores themes of authority, guilt, and the fraught relationship between a son and his domineering father.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work
short story
author Franz Kafka
centralConflict conflict between son and father
climax father's pronouncement of judgment on Georg
containsMotif engagement and marriage
letters
suicide
countryOfOrigin Austria-Hungary NERFINISHED
dateWritten 1912
firstPublicationYear 1913
firstPublishedIn Leipzig NERFINISHED
form prose
genre modernist fiction
psychological fiction
hasAdaptation radio adaptations
stage adaptations
hasInfluenced 20th-century psychological fiction
interpretations of Kafkaesque authority
hasTranslation The Sentence
influencedBy Kafka's relationship with his father
languageStyle concise
symbolic
length short
literaryMovement modernism
mainCharacter Georg Bendemann NERFINISHED
Georg Bendemann's father
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor exploration of guilt and submission
intense depiction of a domineering father
originalLanguage German
originalTitle Das Urteil
partOf Franz Kafka's early works
publisher Kurt Wolff Verlag
setting Prague NERFINISHED
theme alienation
authority
family conflict
father–son relationship
guilt
identity crisis
judgment
obedience
patriarchal authority
power dynamics
psychological torment
tone oppressive
tragic

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Franz Kafka
notableWork
The Judgment ("Das Urteil")
originalTitle

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