The Metamorphosis
New York : Modern Library, 2013.
Format: Book
Edition: 2013 Modern Library paperback edition.
Description: xlix, 312 pages ; 21 cm.
"Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold Featuring essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing--though absurdly comic--meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. This Modern Library edition collects Stanley Corngold's acclaimed English translation--long hailed as the gold standard by scholars and general readers alike--along with six critical essays by writers including Philip Roth, W. H. Auden, and Walter Benjamin, background and contextual material, and a new Introduction from Corngold himself"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Modern Library classics.
Contents:
The metamorphosis -- Critical essays.
Subjects:
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Verwandlung. English.
Samsa, Gregor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Metamorphosis -- Fiction.
Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Verwandlung. English.
Samsa, Gregor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Metamorphosis -- Fiction.
Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780812985146
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-312).