Metamorphosis

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penguin Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: Reprint

Description: 236 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception are a few light age markings on the inside page.

Publishers Description: In the bizarre world of Franz Kafka, salesmen turn into giant bugs, apes give lectures at college academies, and nightmares probe the mysteries of modern humanitys unhappiness. More than any other modern writer in world literature, Kafka captures the loneliness and misery that fill the lives of 20th-century humanity. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories reveals the authors extraordinary talent in a variety of forms—prose poems, short stories, sketches, allegories, and novelettes—and showcases the straightfaced humor, startling psychological insight, and haunting imagination for which he is revered as a modern master. This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafkas works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes "Metamorphosis", his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; "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", Kafkas eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafkas literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.

ISBN: 9780141194837