Metamorphosis and Other Stories: Franz Kafka (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Kafka, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241197821 ISBN 13: 9780241197820

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2015

Synopsis

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself 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, 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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Review:

"I think of a Kafka story as a perfect work of literary art, as approachable as it is strange, and as strange as it is approachable." --Michael Hofmann

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0241197821
• ISBN 13: 9780241197820
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272