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Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Franz Kafka author Edwin Muir translator Willa Muir translator Adam Thirlwell editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:23rd Jan '92

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'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRWELL

One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the other famous stories included here, Kafka explores the confusing nature of human experience with sly wit and compelling originality.

He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him -- Vladimir Nabokov
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

ISBN: 9780749399535

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 19mm

Weight: 175g

240 pages