Kafka's most celebrated tale of a commercial salesman unexpectedly freed from the drudgery of his job by his inexplicable transformation into a huge insect is an enduring masterwork of dark humour, existentialist dread and sublime sense of drama.
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.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241372555
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 203 g
Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 15 mm
Metamorphosis is the reason I gave this book 3 stars, it was a really interesting concept beginning with humour and ending with sadness. It is an interesting way to look at how a family might cope with the sudden... More
A surprise to nobody, I absolutely adored this. In a perfect use of the novella form, Kafka presents to us a dark story of alienation. Gregory Samsa wakes from uneasy dreams and finds himself to have been transformed... More
The Metamorphosis is Kafka's best-known work for a reason - jarring, witty, surrealist and macabre all in one, it's been a favourite of mine for years. It's an excellent introduction to Kafka and his... More
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