The Transformation (Metamorphosis) and Other Short Stories: Works Published in Kafka's Lifetime (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Kafka, Franz; Pasley, Malcolm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140184783 ISBN 13: 9780140184785

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1992

Synopsis

A companion volume to The Great Wall of China and Other Short Works, these new translations bring together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. This volume contains his most famous story. 'The Transformation', more popularly known as 'Metamorphosis'. Other works include '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 Fasting Artist', a collection of stories written towards the end of Kafka's life. There is also a fascinating occasional piece, 'The Aeroplanes at Brescia', Kafka's eye-witness account of an air display in 1909. Taken together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.

About this title

About the Author

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140184783
• ISBN 13: 9780140184785
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256