Consider the persuasive power of the air after a thunderstorm! My own merits appear before me and overwhelm me, though I offer no resistance.
Franz Kafka
New English translation prepared for this collection from the German original.
Nature
Consider the persuasive power of the air after a thunderstorm! My own merits appear before me and overwhelm me, though I offer no resistance.
Franz Kafka
New English translation prepared for this collection from the German original.
Contemplation (Betrachtung), “Der Nachhauseweg” (The Way Home), page 53.
German text: Betrachtung, Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1913 title page; printed November 1912.
The opening of the narrator’s walk home after a storm.
Man sehe die Überzeugungskraft der Luft nach dem Gewitter! Meine Verdienste erscheinen mir und überwältigen mich, wenn ich mich auch nicht sträube.