Metamorphosis and Other Stories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Kafka, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143105248 ISBN 13: 9780143105244

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2008

Synopsis

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka’s 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, 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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About the Author

Franz Kafka (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.

Michael Hofmann (Translator)
Michael Hofmann is a poet and translator from the German. For Penguin he has translated four books by Hans Fallada, in addition to works by Franz Kafka, Ernst Jünger, Irmgard Keun and Jakob Wassermann.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143105248
• ISBN 13: 9780143105244
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320