Metamorphosis (Hesperus Classics) - Softcover

Kafka, Franz; Jarvis, Martin; Stokes, Richard

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9781843910145: Metamorphosis (Hesperus Classics)

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ISBN 10: 1843910144 ISBN 13: 9781843910145

Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd, 2002

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Metamorphosis is Kafka's most famous story. In it he explores the notions of alienation and human loneliness by means of his extraordinary narrative technique and depth of imagination.

Gregor Samsa awakens one morning to find himself transformed into a repulsive bug. Trapped inside this hideous form, his mind remains unchanged – until he sees the shocked reaction of those around him and begins to question the basis of human love and, indeed, his entire purpose in existence. But this, it seems, is only the beginning of his ordeal.

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This edition contains a fascinating introduction by Ritchie Robertson, offering Buddhist, Freudian and expressionist readings of the text. (Guardian online, WB Gooderham)

Bracing surprises for buffs as well as an easy passage into the labyrinth for newcomers. (Boyd Tonkin, The Independent)

About the Author:

Joyce Crick taught at University College London for many years. She has written on Kafka's first English translators Willa and Edwin Muir, and for Oxford World's Classics she has translated Freud's Interpretation of Dreams (winner of the Schlegel-Tieck prize in 2000), and edited and translated a selection of Grimm's Tales. Ritchie Robertson is the author of the Very Short Introduction to Kafka. For Oxford World's Classics he has translated Hoffmann's The Golden Pot and Other Stories and introduced editions of Freud and Schnitzler. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann.

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