Metamorphosis and other stories / Frank Kafka ; translated from the German and edited by Malcolm Pasley.

By:

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924

Contributor(s):

Pasley, Malcolm, 1926-2004

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780141194837 (paperback)

Contained works:

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Transformation and other stories

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

833.912

Summary: This collection brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he 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, 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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction	Dee Why Library	F KAFK (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Issued	13/03/2024	R07757NSLGD

This translation first published under the title The transformation ('Metamorphosis') and other stories in Penguin Books 1992. First published under the current title in Penguin Classics 2000.

This collection brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he 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, 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.

Translated from the German.

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