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Metamorphosis PB
Contributor(s): Kafka, Franz (Author), Corngold, Stanley (Translator)
ISBN: 0812985141     ISBN-13: 9780812985146
Publisher: Modern Library
OUR PRICE:   $14.40  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: November 2013
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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
 
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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.