Metamorphosis and Other Stories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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Overview

A brilliant new translation of Kafka’s best-known work, published for the 125th anniversary of his birth

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka’s works that he 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 frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka’s eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka’s literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101578797
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/26/2008
Series:	Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Series
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	391 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a Czech-born, German-speaking writer. His major novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926), and Amerika (1927).

Michael Hofmann (translator and introducer) has translated Joseph Roth, Hans Fallada, Herta Müller, Zoe Jenny, Wim Wenders, Wolfgang Koeppen, Durs Grünbein, and Franz Kafka. He is a professor of English at the University of Florida.

Date of Birth:

July 3, 1883

Date of Death:

June 3, 1924

Place of Birth:

Prague, Austria-Hungary

Place of Death:

Vienna, Austria

Education:

German elementary and secondary schools. Graduated from German Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague.

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"I think of a Kafka story as a perfect work of literary art, as approachable as it is strange, and as strange as it is approachable."
-Michael Hofmann

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