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‘The Judgment’: summary. A merchant named Georg Bendemann is writing a letter to a friend of his who moved to Russia several years earlier. This friend’s business is in trouble. Georg is writing to tell his friend that he is engaged to be married to a wealthy woman named Frieda Brandenfeld.
A man's discussion with his father about a letter to his friend in Russia erupts into a confrontation about their father-son relationship.
" The Judgment " ("Das Urteil"), also translated "The Verdict", is a short story written by Franz Kafka in 1912, concerning the relationship between a man and his father. Plot summary.
May 30, 2019 · Franz Kafka’s “The Judgment” is the tale of a quiet young man caught in an outrageous situation.
Georg Bendemann's judgment at the hand of his father is as inexorable as was that of Franz Kafka at the hand of Felice, who was to create a dilemma between his ideal of bachelorhood — to him, the necessary prerequisite for his writing — and that of a happy family life.
George stood close beside his father, who had let his head with its tousled white hair sink onto his chest. “George,” said his father faintly, without moving. George knelt down immediately ...
The Judgement. It was on a Sunday morning, when spring was at its best. Georg Bendemann,* a young businessman, was sitting in his own room on the first floor of one of the low, flimsily-built houses extending in a long row down the riverside, their height and colour almost the only di fference between them.
