Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find...
"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...
A masterful mix of horror and absurdity which tells the story of travelling salesman Samsa, who wakes up one day to find out he has turned into a giant insect. Kafka's novella has been adapted for film and television a number of times, most recently for radio when BBC's Radio...
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The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been called one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking...
"One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armor-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections...
This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Susan Bernofsky's acclaimed new translation, along with her Translator's Note.
- Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Mark M. Anderson.
- Three illustrations.
- Related texts by Kafka, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch,...
This version of the novella has been accommodated for German learners. The original German version of the story has been aligned side-by-side with the official English translation by Ian Johnston. German is printed on the...
Writings by and about Kafka and textual notes accompany his translations of his early 20th-century work.
Sous des apparences fantastiques, La M tamorphose n'est en fait qu'une all gorie que le lecteur peut interpr ter comme il veut. Elle a ainsi suscit l'infini des interpr tations: sociologiques, m taphysiques, psychanalytiques. Tout peut y tre trouv handicap, perte du langage...
Del mito de un escritor enfermo, atormentado y poco exitoso en vida, ha emergido, poco a poco, la figura de un creador apasionado por el mundo, e interesado por las vicisitudes de su comunidad y la pol?tica de su tiempo. As? tambi?n, para el lector contempor?neo, m?s habituado...
The Metamorphosis' is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins with a travelling salesman,...
A masterful mix of horror and absurdity that tells the story of traveling salesman Samsa, who wakes up one day to find out he has turned into a giant insect.
One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. Gregor Samsa lives an uneventful life. That is, until one morning he awakes to find himself transformed into...