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The metamorphosis
a new translation, texts and contexts, criticism
by Franz Kafka
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The metamorphosis
a new translation, texts and contexts, criticism
by Franz Kafka
- 0 Ratings
- 7 Want to read
- 1 Currently reading
- 2 Have read
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"Franz Kafka 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. The Metamorphosis is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. In her new translation of Kafka masterpiece, Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity in this macabre tale, underscoring the ways in which Gregor Samsa's grotesque metamorphosis is just the physical manifestation of his longstanding spiritual impoverishment. Mark Anderson's critical apparatus brings together a wide variety of analyses of the existential story, ranging from the psychological vantages of Sacher-Masoch and Nietzsche to focuses of Kafka relationship to animals, Judaism, and photographs. Along with snippets of Kafka letters and diary entries concerning The Metamorphosis, a chronology and selected bibliography are also included"--
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Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction, Lectures et morceaux choisis, Fantastique, Nouvelles, Métamorphose, Romans, Famille, Metamorphosis, Die Verwandlung, an interpretation, Kikuyu (African people), Native races, Afforestation, Indigenous peoples, Readers, Textbooks for foreign speakers, Fiction, German fiction, Texts, Social problems, English, German language, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological, Alienación (Psicología social), Alienation (Social psychology), Criticism and interpretation, Crítica e interpretación, Familia, Family, Ficción, Insectos, Insects, Sales personnel, Vendedores, Translations into English, Families, Fiction, short stories (single author), Kafka, franz, 1883-1924, Korean, Dictionaries, English language, Psychological fiction, German, Trials, Spanish, French, Chinese, Fiction, general, FICTION / Classics, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, FICTION / Literary, German language, readers, Comics & graphic novels, general, Classic Literature, Nouvelles fantastiques, Germanic literature, Fiction, science fiction, general, Alienation (Psychology), Fiction, historical, general, Gregor Samsa (Fictitious character), Verwandlung (Kafka, Franz)Times
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The metamorphosis: a new translation, texts and contexts, criticism
2016
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Metamorphosis
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Metamorphosis
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La Metamorphose
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METAMORPHOSIS
February 1, 1972, Bantam Classics
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Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Translator's note | ||
| The text of The Metamorphosis | ||
| Texts and contexts. Kafka. From Wedding preparations in the country ; Kafka, Max Brod and editors on The Metamorphosis | ||
| Kafka's contemporaries. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch: From Venus in furs ; Friedrich Nietzsche: From On the use and abuse of history, From Thus Spoke Zarathustra ; Hugo von Hofmannsthal: From [The Lord Chandos letter] ; Rainer Maria Rilke: Der Panther, The panther, Archaïscher Torso Apollos, Archaic torso of Apollo ; Johannes V. Jensen: The Condignog ; Jakob von Uexkiill: From The environment and inner world of animals | ||
| Criticism. Günther Anders: From Franz Kafka ; Walter H. Sokel: Kafka's "Metamorphosis" : rebellion and punishment ; Nina Pelikan Straus: Transforming Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" ; Mark M. Anderson: Sliding down the evolutionary ladder? Aesthetic autonomy in The Metamorphosis ; Elizabeth Boa: Creepy-crawlies : The Metamorphosis and Gilman's The yellow wall-paper ; Carolin Duttlinger: From Photographic metamorphoses ; Kari Driscoll: (A) is for animal : speech and voice in Ovid and Kafka ; Dan Miron: [A few raisins and almonds] | ||
| Kafka: a chronology. |
Edition Notes
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-210).
Translated from the German.
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