A collection of Kafka's work published in his lifetime. Includes his classic tale of alienation and angst Metamorphosis, along with other claustrophobic, unsettling and brilliant short stories, essays and fragments.
A collection of translations that brings together the small proportion of the author's works that he himself thought worthy of publication.
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A collection of Kafka's work published in his lifetime. Includes his classic tale of alienation and angst Metamorphosis, along with other claustrophobic, unsettling and brilliant short stories, essays and fragments.
A collection of translations that brings together the small proportion of the author's works that he himself thought worthy of publication.
Description
'I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.'
Featuring an ordinary man who wakes up to find himself turned into a giant cockroach, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, is brought together here with the best of his short stories. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.
About the Author
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a Czech-born German-speaking insurance clerk who despised his job, preferring to spend his time writing. Nevertheless, Kafka published little during his lifetime, and ordered his closest friend to burn the mass of unpublished manuscripts - now familiar to us as some of the most influential novels and short stories of the twentieth century - after his death. Kafka's novels, all available in Penguin Modern Classics, include The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.
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