The story begin with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect."--back cover.
A collection of translations that brings together the small proportion of the author's works that he himself thought worthy of publication.
Although some of the events of the story are fantastical in nature, the ideas is conveys about existence, the meaning of life, and humanity are relatable to us in the real world, too.
The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect.
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 - 3 June 1924) was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, but almost nobody was aware of his writing until after his death.
For the 125th anniversary of Kafka's birth comes an astonishing new translation of his best-known stories, in a spectacular graphic package.
In graphic novel format, reworks Kafka's tale of family and alienation featuring traveling saleman Gregor Samsa, who awakens in his family home one morning to find himself turned into a giant bug.
Writings by and about Kafka and textual notes accompany his translations of his early twentieth-century work about Gregor Samsa, an ordinary man who wakes up one morning only to discover that he has been transformed into a monstrous insect ...
I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself. Originally published in German as die verwandlung (1915), The metamorphosis is one of the Austrian writer Franz Kafka's finest stories.
This MIT Press edition of The Metamorphosis of Plants illustrates Goethe's text (in an English translation by Douglas Miller) with a series of stunning and starkly beautiful color photographs as well as numerous line drawings.