Prometheus (Kafka)

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"Prometheus" is a short story by Franz Kafka written between 1917 and 1923. The story presents four version of the myth of Prometheus, concerning his fate after he was chained to a cliff for betraying the secrets of the gods to men. It was not published in Kafka's lifetime, first appearing in Beim Bau de Chinesischen Mauer (1931, The Great Wall of China, translated 1946).

[edit] References

Kafka, Franz. The Complete Stories. New York: Schocken Books, 1995.

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