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- Title
- La transformacion
- Author
- Franz Kafka
- Publisher
- Debolsillo
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- Spanish
- ISBN 10
- 8497935489
- ISBN 13
- 9788497935487
Una de las obras capitales de la literatura moderna sobre las pesadillas de la existencia
La transformación, o metamorfosis, de Gregor Samsa en un bicho monstruoso, similar a un enorme escarabajo, es uno de los hitos de la literatura universal. Franz Kafka escribió el relato en 1915 y lo publicó por primera vez en la revista mensual Die Weissen Blätter. En noviembre de ese mismo año, el título se imprimió como libro independiente bajo el sello de la editorial Kurt Wolff, con fecha anticipada de 1916.
En este volumen, la más conocida y divulgada pesadilla kafkiana es objeto de una nueva traducción a cargo de Juan José del Solar, que ha tenido presentes la luz que arroja sobre la obra de Kafka la edición crítica de la editorial S. Fischer, que ha obligado, felizmente, a reeditar bajo nuevos parámetros a un autor que está considerado el más emblemático del siglo XX.
La crítica ha dicho:
«El mundo de Kafka es, en verdad, un universo indecible donde el hombre se da el lujo torturante de pescar en una bañera, a sabiendas de que no saldrá nada.»
Albert Camus
«La más indiscutible virtud de Kafka es la invención de situaciones intolerables.»
Jorge Luis Borges
«La literatura de Kafka es tan cruel e intrincada como una pesadilla. La destrucción del yo planea por sus páginas como algo inminente e ineludible.»
Rafael Narbona, El Cultural
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About the Author
Franz Kafka nació en 1883 en Praga, en el seno de una familia judía de habla alemana. En 1903 se licenció en Derecho, y a partir de 1908 trabajó en el Instituto de Seguros para Accidentes de Trabajo, un empleo que lo obligaría a realizar numerosos viajes a través del viejo imperio austrohúngaro, por entonces en pleno proceso de desmoronamiento. Formó parte de los círculos literarios e intelectuales de su ciudad, pero en vida apenas llegó a publicar algunos de sus escritos, la mayor parte en revistas. En 1922 obtuvo la jubilación anticipada por causa de la tuberculosis, enfermedad que empezó a padecer en 1917 y que le ocasionaría la muerte, ocurrida en 1924 en el sanatorio de Kierling, en las cercanías de Viena.
El grueso de la obra de Kafka, entre la que se cuentan tres novelas, varias decenas de narraciones, un extenso diario, numerosos borradores y aforismos y una copiosa correspondencia, se publicó póstumamente por iniciativa de su amigo y albacea Max Brod, quien desobedeció el deseo expresado por Kafka de que se destruyeran todos sus textos. Desde entonces, la importancia de Kafka y su condición de clásico indiscutible no han hecho más que incrementarse, hasta el extremo de ser unánimemente considerado -por decirlo con palabras de Elias Canetti- como el escritor que más puramente ha expresado el siglo XX, y al que hay que considerar por lo tanto como «su manifestación más esencial».
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