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.
Aliases (1)
- Das Urteil ×1
Statements (48)
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| instanceOf |
literary work
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short story → |
| author |
Franz Kafka
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| centralConflict |
conflict between son and father
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| climax |
father's pronouncement of judgment on Georg
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| containsMotif |
engagement and marriage
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letters → suicide → |
| countryOfOrigin |
Austria-Hungary
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| dateWritten |
1912
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| firstPublicationYear |
1913
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| firstPublishedIn |
Leipzig
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| form |
prose
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| genre |
modernist fiction
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psychological fiction → |
| hasAdaptation |
radio adaptations
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stage adaptations → |
| hasInfluenced |
20th-century psychological fiction
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interpretations of Kafkaesque authority → |
| hasTranslation |
The Sentence
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| influencedBy |
Kafka's relationship with his father
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| languageStyle |
concise
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symbolic → |
| length |
short
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| literaryMovement |
modernism
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| mainCharacter |
Georg Bendemann
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Georg Bendemann's father → |
| narrativePerspective |
third-person narration
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| notableFor |
exploration of guilt and submission
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intense depiction of a domineering father → |
| originalLanguage |
German
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| originalTitle |
Das Urteil
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| partOf |
Franz Kafka's early works
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| publisher |
Kurt Wolff Verlag
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| setting |
Prague
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| theme |
alienation
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authority → family conflict → father–son relationship → guilt → identity crisis → judgment → obedience → patriarchal authority → power dynamics → psychological torment → |
| tone |
oppressive
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tragic → |
Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
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Franz Kafka
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notableWork |
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The Judgment
("Das Urteil")
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originalTitle |