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    Metamorphosis and Other Stories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    By Franz Kafka and Michael Hofmann

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    A brilliant new translation of Kafka’s best-known work, published for the 125th anniversary of his birth
     
    This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka’s works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka’s eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka’s literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateFeb 26, 2008
    ISBN9781101578797
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    Franz Kafka

    Franz Kafka was born to Jewish parents in Bohemia in 1883. Kafka’s father was a luxury goods retailer who worked long hours and as a result never became close with his son. Kafka’s relationship with his father greatly influenced his later writing and directly informed his Brief an den Vater (Letter to His Father). Kafka had a thorough education and was fluent in both German and Czech. As a young man, he was hired to work at an insurance company where he was quickly promoted despite his desire to devote his time to writing rather than insurance. Over the course of his life, Kafka wrote a great number of stories, letters, and essays, but burned the majority of his work before his death and requested that his friend Max Brod burn the rest. Brod, however, did not fulfill this request and published many of the works in the years following Kafka’s death of tuberculosis in 1924. Thus, most of Kafka’s works were published posthumously, and he did not live to see them recognized as some of the most important examples of literature of the twentieth century. Kafka’s works are considered among the most significant pieces of existentialist writing, and he is remembered for his poignant depictions of internal conflicts with alienation and oppression. Some of Kafka’s most famous works include The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle.

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    • 2/5
      Gregor wakes up transformed into a bug. No doubt hugely original when it was first published in 1915. Like ‘Waiting for Godot’, no explanations/ interpretations are offered by the author, leaving the reader to make their own. And is The metamorphosis solely about Gregor’s reduction or Greta, his sister’s flowering into an empowered woman, able to contribute both domestically & financially to the family?Absurdist, with absurdist elements. Gregor wakes as a bug & immediately worries about his job. When the 3 lodgers promptly leave without even packing when told to do so, I could visualise like a Monty Python sketch.So, I’m glad I’ve got this famous novella under my belt, one that has been much discussed & has influenced writers/ film-makers / thinkers. But, I actually found it a very tedious read, and was even more grateful when I had finished the last page...
    • 5/5
      Changing the rating to five stars. Because this book had an excellent introduction. And it is no easy job to introduce Kafka. And how do you make an introduction to Kafka excellent, by including his short stories in there. ( Point in case. Before the law and the Emperor's message )

      All hail Kafka.
    • 4/5
      Fascinating and worth the title of classic.