The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
$27.16
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2009
Summary
‘When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.’
With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the fantastical, Kafka thus begins his most famous short story, The Metamorphosis. A commercial traveller is unexpectedly freed from his dreary job by his inexplicable transformation into an insect, which drastically alters his relationship with his family.
Kafka considered publishing it with two…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199238552 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199238553 |
| Author: | Franz Kafka, Ritchie Robertson, Joyce Crick |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 128mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
Critics Review
Bracing surprises for buffs as well as an easy passage into the labyrinth for newcomers.
This edition contains a fascinating introduction by Ritchie Robertson, offering Buddhist, Freudian and expressionist readings of the text. * Guardian online, WB Gooderham *
Bracing surprises for buffs as well as an easy passage into the labyrinth for newcomers. * Boyd Tonkin, The Independent *
Franz Kafka
Joyce Crick taught at University College London for many years. She has written on Kafka’s first English translators Willa and Edwin Muir, and for Oxford World’s Classics she has translated Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams (winner of the Schlegel-Tieck prize in 2000), and edited and translated a selection of Grimm’s Tales.
Ritchie Robertson is the author of the Very Short Introduction to Kafka. For Oxford World’s Classics he has translated Hoffmann’s The Golden Pot and Other Stories and introduced editions of Freud and Schnitzler. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann.
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