A collection of the author's prose poems, sketches, stories, and allegories includes the three-act novelette ""The Metamorphosis"" and a special translation of ""The Penal Colony"" Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

Literature & Fiction

Franz, Kafka

Literary

Scribner Paperback Fiction, Simon & Schuster

Hardcover, Glencoe Literature Library copy.

The Metamorphosis ) 2000

Schools

1996 edition, still in good condition and readable

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

DoverPublications

Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka - Translated by David Wyllie - 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. One day, Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect (the most common translation of the German description ungeheures Ungeziefer, literally "monstrous vermin"). He reflects on how dreary life as a traveling salesman is. As he looks at the wall clock, he notices that he has overslept and missed his train for work. He ponders the consequences of this delay. Gregor becomes annoyed at how his boss never accepts excuses or explanations from any of his employees no matter how hard-working they are, displaying an apparent lack of trusting abilities. Gregor's mother knocks on the door, and he answers her. She is concerned for Gregor because he is late for work, which is unorthodox for him. Gregor answers his mother and realizes that his voice has changed, but his answer is short, so his mother does not notice. His sister, Grete, to whom he is very close, then whispers through the door and begs him to open it. He tries to get out of bed but is incapable of moving his body. While trying to move, he finds that his office manager, the chief clerk, has shown up to check on him. He finally rocks his body to the floor and calls out that he will open the door shortly.

Metamorphosis

Contemporary

Broadway

Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis - arguably the greatest, most famous and most unnerving short work of literary fiction ever written - is a hundred years old in 2015. This centenary edition offers the first complete English translation of Kafka's text (by A. L. Lloyd from 1937) and a richly detailed new introduction to the story by novelist Richard T. Kelly, describing its genesis and the life of its creator. In The Metamorphosis' unforgettable opening sentence we meet travelling salesman Gregor Samsa - on a rare overnight stay in the apartment he shares with his family, paid for by his ceaseless labour - who awakes one morning 'from a troubled dream' to find himself 'changed in his bed to some kind of monstrous vermin'. "There is nothing which The Metamorphosis could be surpassed by - one of the few great, perfect poetic works of this century." (Elias Canetti). "My greatest masterpieces of twentieth-century prose are, in this order, Joyce's Ulysses, Kafka's [Metamorphosis], Bely's Petersburg and the first half of Proust's fairy tale In Search of Lost Time." (Vladimir Nabokov).

Metamorphosis (and Other Stories Modern Classics)

British & Irish

Penguin??Books

America (Modern Classics)

Text: English, German (translation)

Letters to Felice / Kafka's Other Trial (Penguin Modern Classics)

elias-canetti

Wedding Preparations in the Country is a fragmented narrative by Franz Kafka, written between 1907 and 1909 and published posthumously. The story itself, namely the journey of the unhappy bridegroom Raban to his bride out in the country, is embedded in a meticulous description of his surroundings. This narrative was intended to be part of a novel. However, Kafka abandoned the project after multiple attempts.

Wedding Preparations in the Country (Modern Classics)

The Collected Novels of Franz Kafka: (The Trial; The Castle; America)638 pp. Epilogue by Max Brod. "In his novels Kafka evokes a nightmare world of enigmatic realities and intangible truths. The hero, or anti-hero, of both The Trial and The Castle is a man named K.--a lonely, perplexed individual, riddled with inexplicable guilt. In The Trial K. is arrested. He doesn't know why. Yet he is pulled, slowly and desperately, into the wayward processes of the law. The same (or a different?) K. in The Castle is a land surveyor, uncannily attracted to yet repelled by a strange, forbidding castle-like structure. America lies within a more traditional novelistic framework; however, a similar atmosphere pervades this work, and reality assumes a certain menace, both alient yet terrifyingly recognizable."Keyword: FRANZ KAFKA NOVELS LITERATURE TRIAL CASTLE AMERICA

The Collected Novels of Franz Kafka (Penguin Modern Classics)

Classics

Penguin

Penguin Complete Short Stories of Franz Kafka

Short Stories & Anthologies

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