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Metamorphosis and other stories / Frank Kafka ; translated by Michael Hofmann.

By: Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 [author.]Contributor(s): Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25- [translator.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: London : Penguin Classics, 2015Description: 320 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780241197820 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Translations into English | Classics | Classics | Fiction in Translation | Short StoriesDDC classification: 833.9'12
Contents:
Introduction Notes on the texts Contemplation (1913) The judgement: a story for F. (1913) The stoker: a fragment (1913) Metamorphosis (1913) In the penal colony (1919) A country doctor: short prose for my father (1920) A hunger-artist: four stories (1924) Appendix: Aeroplanes in Brescia (1909) Great noise (1912) The coal-scuttle rider (1921).
Summary: This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Franz Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication, including 'Metamorphosis', his famous exploration of horrific transformation and alienation. Together, they reveal the breadth of his literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.
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Translated from the German.

Introduction Notes on the texts Contemplation (1913) The judgement: a story for F. (1913) The stoker: a fragment (1913) Metamorphosis (1913) In the penal colony (1919) A country doctor: short prose for my father (1920) A hunger-artist: four stories (1924) Appendix: Aeroplanes in Brescia (1909) Great noise (1912) The coal-scuttle rider (1921).

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Franz Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication, including 'Metamorphosis', his famous exploration of horrific transformation and alienation. Together, they reveal the breadth of his literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.

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