by Franz Kafka ; translated and edited by Stanley Corngold.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
Bantam classic ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, N.Y. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Bantam Books,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1986.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxii, 201 pages ;
Dimensions
18 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Bantam classic
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Contains letters by Kafka, diary entries and 10 critical essays.
Text of Note
Translation of: Die Verwandlung.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction / Stanley Corngold -- The Metamorphosis / [Franz Kafka] ; translated by Stanley Corngold -- Note on the text -- EXPLANATORY NOTES TO THE TEXT -- DOCUMENTS -- Letter by Franz Kafka to Max Brod, October 8, 1912 -- Sokel's comments -- Two conversations between Kafka and Gustav Janouch, 1920-1923 -- Kafka to his father, November 1919 -- Entries in Kafka's diaries -- CRITICAL ESSAYS -- Franz Kafka / Wilhelm Emrich -- Kafka's obscurity / Ralph Freedman -- The making of allegory / Edwin Honig -- Kafka's conception (Thematik) of being / Max Bense -- Kafka's fantasy of punishment / Hellmut Kaiser -- Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" as a death and resurrection fantasy / Peter Dow Webster -- Education for tragedy / Walter H. Sokel -- The Writer, Franz Kafka / Friedrich Beissner -- Kafka, the poet / Friedrich Beissner -- Commentary -- "The Metamorphosis" / Hellmut Richter.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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A novel about a man who finds himself transformed into a huge insect, and the effects of this change upon his life. This is a fantastic horror story about a hapless man who is turned into an insect. 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, 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.
UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
Verwandlung.
Language (when part of a heading)
English
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Kafka, Franz,1883-1924-- Criticism and interpretation.