Metamorphosis and Other Stories, The (Barnes & Noble Classics) - Softcover

Introduction And Notes By Jason Baker; Translated By Donna Freed Franz Kafka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593080298 ISBN 13: 9781593080297

Publisher: Barnes & Noble, 2012

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Review:

aI 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.a
aMichael Hofmann

About the Author:

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech-born German-speaking writer. His major novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926), and Amerika (1927).

Michael Hofmann is a poet. His most recent collection is Approximately Nowhere (Faber). As a translator his work includes Kafka's The Man who Disappeared (Amerika). He is the translator of six books by Joseph Roth and was awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize for his translation of Roth's The String of Pearls. His latest book is Behind the Lines, a collection of essays.

About this edition

• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1593080298
• ISBN 13: 9781593080297
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224