The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classic) - Softcover

Franz Kafka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055321196X ISBN 13: 9780553211962

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1972

Synopsis

Writings by and about Kafka and textual notes accompany his translations of his early-twentieth-century work

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 055321196X
• ISBN 13: 9780553211962
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 201