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...
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...
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...
For use in schools and libraries only. Writings by and about Kafka and textual notes accompany his translations of his early 20th-century work.
Gregor Samsa wakes up as an insect, a metamorphosis that not only affects his exterior aspect, his outer shell, but also his interior, his thoughts and his attitude towards life. During this process he will ask himself questions such as Who are we? How do others see us? Can...
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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...
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,...
Writings by and about Kafka and textual notes accompany his translations of his early 20th-century work.
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...
"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...