Metamorphosis - Softcover

Franz Kafka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553210424 ISBN 13: 9780553210422

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1982

Synopsis

An unread copy. Normal foxing. Clean and unmarked. Mild/normal shelf and edge wear including ting chip on front cover and tiny tear at bottom of spine. Satisfaction guaranteed!

About this title

From the Publisher:

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequecy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the mosst widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

About the Author:

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His major novels include The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.

Stanley Corngold is a professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at Princeton University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His highly acclaimed translations include Kafka's Selected Stories. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Stanley Corngold is a professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at Princeton University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His highly acclaimed translations include Kafka's Selected Stories. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0553210424
• ISBN 13: 9780553210422
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 201