Metamorphosis PB Contributor(s): Kafka, Franz (Author), Corngold, Stanley (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0812985141 ISBN-13: 9780812985146 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2013021937 |
Lexile Measure: 1340 |
Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.58 lbs) 368 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 seven critical essays by writers including Philip Roth, W. H. Auden, and Walter Benjamin, background and contextual material, and a new Introduction from Corngold himself. |