The Metamorphosis - Softcover

Kafka, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1945644931 ISBN 13: 9781945644931

Publisher: Chump Change, 1915

Synopsis

Unabridged English value reproduction of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. This wonderfully weird classic of an average family with an unacceptable member is studied in universities across the globe. 

The Metamorphosis is multilayered and resonates in people in different ways, opening doors of thoughts that were often never even seen before.

This beautifully tragic science fiction tale is provided to the reader in a slim volume with the full text at an affordable price.

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."

From the Back Cover:

Since his death in 1924, Kafka has come to be regarded as one of the greatest modern writers, one whose work brilliantly explores the anxiety, futility, and complexity of modern life. The precision and clarity of Kafka's style, its powerful symbolism, and his existential exploration of the human condition have given his work universal significance.
In addition to the title selection, considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work, this collection includes "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor," and "A Report to an Academy." Stanley Appelbaum has provided excellent new English translation of the stories and a brief Note placing them within Kafka's oeuvre.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chump Change
• Publication date: 1915
• ISBN 10: 1945644931
• ISBN 13: 9781945644931
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 36