$22.40
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
28 November 2022
Summary
The Absurd Transformation: Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Other Tales
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics—irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
One morning, ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach. Metamorphosis, Kafka’s masterpiece of unease and black humour, is one of the twentieth century’s most influential works of fiction,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241573730 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241573734 |
| Series: | Little Clothbound Classics |
| Author: | Franz Kafka, Michael Hoffman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 28 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 167mm x 117mm x 15mm |
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He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him
He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him – Vladimir NabokovKafka described with wonderful imaginative power the future concentration camps, the future instability of the law, the future absolutism of the state, the paralysed, inadequately motivated, floundering lives of the many individual people; everything appeared as a nightmare and with the confusion and inadequacy of a nightmare – Bertolt Brecht
About The Author
Franz Kafka
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.
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