The Cares of a Family Man

The concern of the householder is a short story by Franz Kafka, the 1920 volume was published in A Country Doctor.

Content

A strange thing or being called " Odradek " moves to its own rules in the house of the narrator.

Odradek resembles a small star-shaped spool of thread with torn twisting and rod-shaped cantilevers, on which he can stand upright. He can also move and even speak.

Odradek wanders around all over the house, sometimes he's gone. On the one hand he speaks, he is often silent. One speaks of him as a child because of its tiny size, but he responds grow. There is no apparent legality for him, he has no specific activity. To the displeasure of the father's house Odradek has no activity in which he grinds and about - what happens to all beings - is death.

The narrative householder can assign the object neither sense nor objective and the idea hurts him almost that Odradek could survive him.

Interpretation

See Odradek.

Expenditure

• Franz Kafka: All narratives. Paul Raabe. Fischer -Taschenbuch -Verlag, 1970, ISBN 3-596-21078- X.
• Franz Kafka: The narratives. Original Version, Edited by Roger Herms. Fischer Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-596-13270-3.

Secondary literature

• Peter- André Alt: Franz Kafka: The eternal Son. A Biography. Publisher C. H. Beck, 2005, ISBN 3-406-53441-4.
• Bettina von Jagow, Oliver Year in: Kafka -Handbuch life -works effect. Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-20852-6
• Reiner Stach: Kafka: The years of knowledge. S. Fischer, ISBN 978-3-10-075119-5