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Metamorphosis and other stories

Kafka, Franz, 1883-19242020

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A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, 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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Main title:

Metamorphosis and other stories / Frank Kafka ; translated and with an afterword by Michael Hofman.

Author:

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924, authorHofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25-, translator, writer of afterword

Work:

Metamorphosis and Other Stories

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Collation:

v, 265 pages ; 20 cm.

Series title:

Penguin modern classics

Notes:

This translation first published by Penguin Books 2007.Translated from the German.

Contents:

Contemplation (1913)Children on the roadUnmasking a confidence tricksterThe sudden walkResolutionsThe excursion into the mountainsThe plight of the bachelorThe businessmanLooking out distractedlyThe way homeThe men running pastThe passengerDressesThe rejectionFor the consideration of amateur jockeysThe window on to the streetDesire to be a red IndianThe treesBeing unhappyThe judgement : a story for F. (1913)The stoker : a fragment (1913)Metamorphosis (1913)In the penal colony (1919)A country doctor : short prose for my father (1920)The new advocateA country doctorIn the galleryAn old journalBefore the lawJackals and ArabsA visit to the mineThe neighbouring villageA message from the emperorThe worries of a head of householdEleven sonsA fratricideA dreamA report to an academyA hunger-artist : four stories (1924)First sorrowA little womanA hunger-artistJosefine, the singer, or the mouse peopleApp. Aeroplanes in Brescia (1909)App. Great noise (1912)App. The coal-scuttle rider (1921)

ISBN:

9780241436240 (pbk)9780241436240 (paperback)0241436249 (paperback)

Dewey class:

833.912

Language:

EnglishGerman

Added title:

Works. Selections. English

Subject:

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Translations into EnglishShort stories

BRN:

640677