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"A Report to an Academy" (German: "Ein Bericht für eine Akademie") is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. In the story, an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation. The story was first published by Martin Buber in the German monthly Der Jude, along with another of Kafka's stories, "Jackals and Arabs" ("Schakale und Araber"). The story appeared again in a 1919 collection titled Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor).

Ashur Yonan is going nowhere fast: an eighteen-year-old college dropout living with a mom who doesn’t understand him, mourning the death of his father five years earlier and working a dead-end food service job. The only good thing he has going for him is his girlfriend Kiki, but she’s leaving soon for college on the East Coast. It’s getting harder for Ashur to believe he still has the potential to make something great out of his life.

The story of an ape who copied men so as to escape from his cage and be shown off in circuses as well as addressing crowds, with the remarkable insights of Kafka.

Quitting her job as a high school science teacher to join the Seattle Police Department was an easy decision for Tracy Crosswhite. Years earlier, what should have been one of the happiest days of her life instead became her worst nightmare when her younger sister, Sarah, disappeared. After the murder trial, while her family disintegrated, Tracy turned her heartbreak and her lingering questions into a passion for justice.

Janis Ian was catapulted into the spotlight in 1966 at the age of 15, when her soul-wrenching song "Society's Child" became a hit. But this was only the beginning of a long and illustrious career. In Society's Child, Janis Ian provides a relentlessly honest account of the successes and failures - and the hopes and dreams - of an extraordinary life.

Em novembro de 2019, Paul Preciado foi convidado a falar para 3.500 psicanalistas na Jornada Internacional da Escola da Causa Freudiana em Paris, cujo tema era "Mulheres na psicanálise". Seu discurso se inspirou no emblemático Relatório a uma academia, de Franz Kafka, em que um macaco diz a uma assembleia de cientistas que a subjetividade humana é uma jaula como a que o aprisionou.

Die Filmstudentin Catherine hat ein Geheimnis: einen lang gehegten Traum, der Ursprung aller ihrer sexuellen Fantasien ist. Einen Traum voller Begierden, für die sie sich schämt und die ihr peinlich sind. Und dieser Traum wird immer lebendiger, ist erfüllt von wildem, orgiastischem Sex und hält schließlich Einzug in ihren Alltag: Eines Abends trifft sie in einem Club auf einen Mann, der sie in eine fremde Welt entführt. Und bald tritt sie der exklusiven Juliette Society bei.

Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters battling unimaginable death and destruction every day. Dennis Smith worked as a firefighter in the South Bronx, New York City, and the graphic detail and gripping prose of this firefighting classic drives the most important, accomplished, terrifying audiobook ever published on firefighting.

Un hombre despierta y se encuentra convertido en un enorme insecto. Un faquir, dedicado al ayuno, lo hace por tanto tiempo que se olvidan de el. Este es el tipo de historia de pesadilla que caracteriza al gran autor checo.

Este relato corto narra la historia del mono Pedro el rojo, relatada por él mismo. A través de un informe escrito a una academia científica, el mono explica sus orígenes, cómo fue capturado y el duro proceso de aprendizaje que se ha visto obligado a seguir. Pedro el rojo es un simio humanizado, consciente de su situación, con la inteligencia suficiente para poder hablar y escribir como una persona cultivada y bien educada. A través de este mono convertido en señor, Kafka pretende dejar en evidencia la irracionalidad que se esconde tras el supuesto pensamiento racional y científico que acata la sociedad.

ONE of THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS of the YEAR * A VANITY FAIR and TOWN & COUNTRY BEST BOOK of the YEAR * New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century—the true effects of...

Il nome di Kafka evoca all’istante atmosfere cupe e claustrofobiche, ma nel caso della “Relazione all’Accademia” siamo in un clima del tutto diverso. In questo straordinario “monologo” a parlare a un parterre di scienziati, è un anziano scimmione. Chi sa quante volte Franz, durante la sua adolescenza, è andato a vedere uno spettacolo circense con i suoi animali “sapienti”. Ma mentre i suoi coetanei ridevano e si divertivano, quanto diverso doveva essere il suo sguardo quando incrociava quello di qualche scimmia addomesticata.