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The Metamorphosis - (Schocken Kafka Library) by Franz Kafka (Paperback)

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  • From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial A collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed into an insect.
  • About the Author: FRANZ KAFKA was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life.
  • 320 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Classics
  • Series Name: Schocken Kafka Library

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The best-known novellas and stories of one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century. Included are "The Judgment", "A Country Doctor", and "A Hunger Artist". New Foreword by Anne Rice.



Book Synopsis



From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial A collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed into an insect.

To Max Brod, his literary executor, Kafka wrote: "Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these."

"Kafka's survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon: 'With their posterior legs they were still glued to their father's Jewishness and with their wavering anterior legs they found no new ground.' There is a sense in which Kafka's Jewish question ('What have I in common with Jews?') has become everybody's question, Jewish alienation the template for all our doubts. What is Muslimness? What is femaleness? What is Polishness? These days we all find our anterior legs flailing before us. We're all insects, all Ungeziefer, now." --Zadie Smith, bestselling author of White Teeth and On Beauty



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"Kafka's survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon: 'With their posterior legs they were still glued to their father's Jewishness and with their wavering anterior legs they found no new ground.' There is a sense in which Kafka's Jewish question ('What have I in common with Jews?') has become everybody's question, Jewish alienation the template for all our doubts. What is Muslimness? What is femaleness? What is Polishness? These days we all find our anterior legs flailing before us. We're all insects, all Ungeziefer, now."
--Zadie Smith

"Kafka engaged in no technical experiments whatsoever; without in any way changing the German language, he stripped it of its involved constructions until it became clear and simple, like everyday speech purified of slang and negligence. The common experience of Kafka's readers is one of general and vague fascination, even in stories they fail to understand, a precise recollection of strange and seemingly absurd images and descriptions--until one day the hidden meaning reveals itself to them with the sudden evidence of a truth simple and incontestable."
--Hannah Arendt




About the Author



FRANZ KAFKA was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," and "The Stoker." He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.04 Inches (H) x 5.2 Inches (W) x .67 Inches (D)
Weight: .66 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Schocken Kafka Library
Sub-Genre: Classics
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 320
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Format: Paperback
Author: Franz Kafka
Language: English
Street Date: November 14, 1995
TCIN: 76960080
UPC: 9780805210576
Item Number (DPCI): 247-04-6650
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.67 inches length x 5.2 inches width x 8.04 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.66 pounds
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