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The Metamorphosis

And Other Stories

And Other Stories

By Franz Kafka

By Franz Kafka

By Franz Kafka

By Franz Kafka

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Part of The Schocken Kafka Library

Part of The Schocken Kafka Library

Paperback $16.00

Nov 14, 1995 | ISBN 9780805210576

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May 14, 2009 | ISBN 9780307496775

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    About The Metamorphosis

    From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial: A collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed into an insect. 

    To Max Brod, his literary executor, Kafka wrote: “Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these.”

    “Kafka’s survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon: ‘With their posterior legs they were still glued to their father’s Jewishness and with their wavering anterior legs they found no new ground.’ There is a sense in which Kafka’s Jewish question (‘What have I in common with Jews?’) has become everybody’s question, Jewish alienation the template for all our doubts. What is Muslimness? What is femaleness? What is Polishness? These days we all find our anterior legs flailing before us. We’re all insects, all Ungeziefer, now.” —Zadie Smith, bestselling author of White Teeth and On Beauty

    About The Metamorphosis

    From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial: A collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed into an insect. 

    To Max Brod, his literary executor, Kafka wrote: “Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these.”

    “Kafka’s survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon: ‘With their posterior legs they were still glued to their father’s Jewishness and with their wavering anterior legs they found no new ground.’ There is a sense in which Kafka’s Jewish question (‘What have I in common with Jews?’) has become everybody’s question, Jewish alienation the template for all our doubts. What is Muslimness? What is femaleness? What is Polishness? These days we all find our anterior legs flailing before us. We’re all insects, all Ungeziefer, now.” —Zadie Smith, bestselling author of White Teeth and On Beauty

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    The Castle
    Aphorisms
    Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater
    Letters to Milena
    See all books by Franz Kafka

    About Franz Kafka

    FRANZ KAFKA was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker.” He died in 1924, before completing any of… More about Franz Kafka

    About Franz Kafka

    FRANZ KAFKA was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker.” He died in 1924, before completing any of… More about Franz Kafka

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Schocken
    Nov 14, 1995 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780805210576

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Schocken
    May 14, 2009 | 328 Pages | ISBN 9780307496775

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    Praise

    “Kafka’s survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon: ‘With their posterior legs they were still glued to their father’s Jewishness and with their wavering anterior legs they found no new ground.’ There is a sense in which Kafka’s Jewish question (‘What have I in common with Jews?’) has become everybody’s question, Jewish alienation the template for all our doubts. What is Muslimness? What is femaleness? What is Polishness? These days we all find our anterior legs flailing before us. We’re all insects, all Ungeziefer, now.”
    —Zadie Smith
     
    “Kafka engaged in no technical experiments whatsoever; without in any way changing the German language, he stripped it of its involved constructions until it became clear and simple, like everyday speech purified of slang and negligence. The common experience of Kafka’s readers is one of general and vague fascination, even in stories they fail to understand, a precise recollection of strange and seemingly absurd images and descriptions—until one day the hidden meaning reveals itself to them with the sudden evidence of a truth simple and incontestable.”
    —Hannah Arendt 

    Table Of Contents

    Conversation with the Supplicant
     
    Meditation
        Children on a Country Road
        Unmasking a Confidence Trickster
        The Sudden Walk
        Resolutions
        Excursion into the Mountains
        Bachelor’s III Luck
        The Tradesman
        Absent-minded Window-gazing
        The Way Home
        Passers-by
        On the Tram
        Clothes
        Rejection
        Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys
        The Street Window
        The Wish to Be a Red Indian
        The Trees
        Unhappiness
     
    The Judgment
     
    The Metamorphosis
     
    A Country Doctor
        The New Advocate
        A Country Doctor
        Up in the Gallery
        An Old Manuscript
        Before the Law
        Jackals and Arabs
        A Visit to a Mine
        The Next Village
        An Imperial Message
        The Cares of a Family Man
        Eleven Sons
        A Fratricide
        A Dream
        A Report to an Academy
        The Bucket Rider

    In the Penal Colony
     
    A Hunger Artist
        First Sorrow
        A Little Woman
        A Hunger Artist
        Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk
     
    Appendix
        The First Long Train Journey, by Max Brod and Franz Kafka
        The Aeroplanes at Brescia
        Three Critical Pieces
        Epilogue by Max Brod

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