Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Kafka, Franz; Hofmann, Michael; Hofmann, MichaelEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-02-26
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafkars"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, Kafkars"s eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafkars"s literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.
Author Biography
Franz Kafka (1883-û1924) was a Czech-born German-speaking writer, best known for the story -ôMetamorphosis-ö and three posthumously published novels, The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.
Michael Hofmann is an award-wining translator as well as a poet. He has translated Kafka-'s Amerika, Thomas Bernhard-'s Frost, and six books by Joseph Roth.
Sammy Harkham is the cartoonist behind Crickets and Kramers Ergot.
Michael Hofmann is an award-wining translator as well as a poet. He has translated Kafka-'s Amerika, Thomas Bernhard-'s Frost, and six books by Joseph Roth.
Sammy Harkham is the cartoonist behind Crickets and Kramers Ergot.
Table of Contents
| Contemplation (1913) | p. 1 |
| Children on the Road | p. 3 |
| Unmasking a Confidence Trickster | p. 7 |
| The Sudden Walk | p. 10 |
| Resolutions | p. 12 |
| The Excursion into the Mountains | p. 13 |
| The Plight of the Bachelor | p. 14 |
| The Businessman | p. 15 |
| Looking out Distractedly | p. 18 |
| The Way Home | p. 19 |
| The Men Running Past | p. 20 |
| The Passenger | p. 21 |
| Dresses | p. 23 |
| The Rejection | p. 24 |
| For the Consideration of Amateur Jockeys | p. 25 |
| The Window on to the Street | p. 27 |
| Desire to be a Red Indian | p. 28 |
| The Trees | p. 29 |
| Being Unhappy | p. 30 |
| The Judgement: A Story For F. (1913) | p. 35 |
| The Stoker: A Fragment (1913) | p. 51 |
| Metamorphosis (1913) | p. 85 |
| In the Penal Colony (1919) | p. 147 |
| A Country Doctor: Short Prose for my Father (1920) | p. 181 |
| The New Advocate | p. 183 |
| A Country Doctor | p. 185 |
| In the Gallery | p. 192 |
| An Old Journal | p. 194 |
| Before the Law | p. 197 |
| Jackals and Arabs | p. 199 |
| A Visit to the Mine | p. 204 |
| The Neighbouring Village | p. 208 |
| A Message from the Emperor | p. 209 |
| The Worries of a Head of Household | p. 211 |
| Eleven Sons | p. 213 |
| A Fratricide | p. 219 |
| A Dream | p. 222 |
| A Report to an Academy | p. 225 |
| A Hunger-Artist: Four Stories (1924) | p. 237 |
| First Sorrow | p. 239 |
| A Little Woman | p. 243 |
| A Hunger-Artist | p. 252 |
| Josefine, the Singer, or The Mouse People | p. 264 |
| Appendix | p. 285 |
| Aeroplanes in Brescia (1909) | p. 287 |
| Great Noise (1912) | p. 296 |
| The Coal-Scuttle Rider (1921) | p. 297 |
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