The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin".
... back in his room straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand any moment.
"This volume is an important addition to our understanding and appreciation of Kafka and his work.
Sander L. Gilman brings together Kafka's literary works, personal writings, and biography to create a compelling and accessible narrative of the literary master's life.
The only honest thing to do is point.” —Joshua Cohen, from his foreword to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, the minor works that are actually major.
This stimulating book investigates some of the sources of Kafka’s personal anguish and its complex reflections in his imaginary world.
Is this Kafka's look at the problem of human community extricating itself from the old benighted practices by ... (The Basic Kafka 18) Public shaming is a core ingredient of the punitive spectacle as is the related belief that the ...
This 1973 text provides a critical introduction to the writings of Franz Kafka. Within it Ronald Gray surveys the novels and short stories, and glances also at the religious or confessional writings.
I am not alone among critics to have suggested analogies between Kafka and Wittgenstein, though most have not insisted on the analogous role of thinking in images found in the young Wittgenstein and Kafka. I want to conclude here, ...
It is the first volume in English to consider his deeply strange, resonantly humane letters and journal entries alongside his classic short fiction and lyrical vignettes "Transformed" is a vivid retranslation of one of Kafka's signature ...
This volume makes available for the first time in English a comprehensive reconstruction of the diary entries and provides substantial new content, including details, names, literary works, and passages of a sexual nature that were omitted ...