Franz Kafka – Metamorphosis
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Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
272pp
‘When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed.’
Metamorphosis, Kafka’s masterpiece of unease and black humour, is one of the twentieth century’s most influential works of fiction, and is accompanied here by two more classic stories.
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka’s works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes ‘Meditation’, a collection of his earlier studies; ‘The Judgement’, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; ‘The Stoker’, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, and ‘The Aeroplanes at Brescia’, Kafka’s eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka’s literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.
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Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
272pp
‘When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed.’
Metamorphosis, Kafka’s masterpiece of unease and black humour, is one of the twentieth century’s most influential works of fiction, and is accompanied here by two more classic stories.
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka’s works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes ‘Meditation’, a collection of his earlier studies; ‘The Judgement’, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; ‘The Stoker’, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, and ‘The Aeroplanes at Brescia’, Kafka’s eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka’s literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.
