The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories - Softcover

Kafka, Franz; Neugroschel, Joachim

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9780020218074: The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories

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ISBN 10: 0020218079 ISBN 13: 9780020218074

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1995

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"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, "The Metamorphosis." It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequecy, guilt, and isolation, "The Metamorphosis" has taken its place as one of the mosst widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

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Review:

Ronald Hayman

author of "K: A Biography of Kafka" and "Proust"

Joachim Neugroschel has provided something that was badly needed -- an accurate translation of Kafka's stories into English. Kafka is difficult to translate, and the version we all know -- by Edwin and Willa Muir -- is full of mistakes. Neugroschel's translation is much closer to Kafka's German.

Va clav Havel

In Kafka, I have found a portion of my own experience of the world, of myself, and of my way of being in the world.

Harold Bloom

author of "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human"

Joachim Neugroschel's version is an advance over previous translations of Kafka into English.

Joseph Coates

"Chicago Tribune"

In Neugroschel's version we see more of Kafka's meaning, his unexpected comedy....In this version, we have for the first time the sense of understanding Kafka's complexity and where it might lead us.

Vaclav Havel

In Kafka, I have found a portion of my own experience of the world, of myself, and of my way of being in the world.

Ronald Hayman author of "K: A Biography of Kafka" and "Proust" Joachim Neugroschel has provided something that was badly needed -- an accurate translation of Kafka's stories into English. Kafka is difficult to translate, and the version we all know -- by Edwin and Willa Muir -- is full of mistakes. Neugroschel's translation is much closer to Kafka's German.

Harold Bloom author of "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human" Joachim Neugroschel's version is an advance over previous translations of Kafka into English.

Joseph Coates "Chicago Tribune" In Neugroschel's version we see more of Kafka's meaning, his unexpected comedy....In this version, we have for the first time the sense of understanding Kafka's complexity and where it might lead us.

Harold Bloom author of Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human Joachim Neugroschel's version is an advance over previous translations of Kafka into English.

Joseph Coates Chicago Tribune In Neugroschel's version we see more of Kafka's meaning, his unexpected comedy....In this version, we have for the first time the sense of understanding Kafka's complexity and where it might lead us.

About the Author:

Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883, where he lived until his death in 1924. Widely esteemed as one of the twentieth century's most important writers, he is the author of the novels The Trial and The Castle.

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