Metamorphosis and Other Stories, 9780241436240
Paperback
Kafka’s unsettling visions: transformation, alienation, and the bizarre unfold.

Metamorphosis and Other Stories

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  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    30 March 2020

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Summary

A PMC reissue of this collection of Kafka’s greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann

A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, this collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka’s works that he himself 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 fren…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241436240
ISBN-10:0241436249
Author:Franz Kafka, Michael Hofmann
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:30 March 2020
Weight:204g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 15mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
About The Author

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (Author)

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.

Michael Hofmann (Translator)

Michael Hofmann is a poet and translator from the German. For Penguin he has translated four books by Hans Fallada, in addition to works by Franz Kafka, Ernst Jünger, Irmgard Keun and Jakob Wassermann.

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