| ISBN |
9780241436240 (paperback) |
| 0241436249 (paperback) |
| Name |
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 author. |
| Uniform title |
Works. Selections. English |
| Title |
Metamorphosis and other stories / Frank Kafka ; translated and with an afterword by Michael Hofman. |
| Published |
London : Penguin Classics, 2020. |
| ©2007 |
| Description |
v, 265 pages ; 20 cm |
| Notes |
This translation first published by Penguin Books 2007. |
| Contents |
Contemplation (1913) -- Children on the road -- Unmasking a confidence trickster -- The sudden walk -- Resolutions -- The excursion into the mountains -- The plight of the bachelor -- The businessman -- Looking out distractedly -- The way home -- The men running past -- The passenger -- Dresses -- The rejection -- For the consideration of amateur jockeys -- The window on to the street -- Desire to be a red Indian -- The trees -- Being unhappy -- 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) -- The new advocate -- A country doctor -- In the gallery -- An old journal -- Before the law -- Jackals and Arabs -- A visit to the mine -- The neighbouring village -- A message from the emperor -- The worries of a head of household -- Eleven sons -- A fratricide -- A dream -- A report to an academy -- A hunger-artist : four stories (1924) -- First sorrow -- A little woman -- A hunger-artist -- Josefine, the singer, or the mouse people -- App. Aeroplanes in Brescia (1909) -- App. Great noise (1912) -- App. The coal-scuttle rider (1921) |
| Summary |
A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, this collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, and The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought. |
| Language note |
Translated from the German. |
| Subjects |
Kafka, Franz, -- 1883-1924 -- Translations into English |
| Genre |
Short stories |
| Other Names |
Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25- translator, writer of afterword. |
| Series |
Penguin modern classics |
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