Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Kafka, Franz; Hofmann, Michael; Hofmann, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780143105244
• ISBN10: 0143105248
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-26
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafkars"s works that he 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, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafkars"s eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafkars"s literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.

Author Biography

Franz Kafka (1883-û1924) was a Czech-born German-speaking writer, best known for the story -ôMetamorphosis-ö and three posthumously published novels, The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.
Michael Hofmann is an award-wining translator as well as a poet. He has translated Kafka-'s Amerika, Thomas Bernhard-'s Frost, and six books by Joseph Roth.
Sammy Harkham is the cartoonist behind Crickets and Kramers Ergot.

Table of Contents

Contemplation (1913)	p. 1
Children on the Road	p. 3
Unmasking a Confidence Trickster	p. 7
The Sudden Walk	p. 10
Resolutions	p. 12
The Excursion into the Mountains	p. 13
The Plight of the Bachelor	p. 14
The Businessman	p. 15
Looking out Distractedly	p. 18
The Way Home	p. 19
The Men Running Past	p. 20
The Passenger	p. 21
Dresses	p. 23
The Rejection	p. 24
For the Consideration of Amateur Jockeys	p. 25
The Window on to the Street	p. 27
Desire to be a Red Indian	p. 28
The Trees	p. 29
Being Unhappy	p. 30
The Judgement: A Story For F. (1913)	p. 35
The Stoker: A Fragment (1913)	p. 51
Metamorphosis (1913)	p. 85
In the Penal Colony (1919)	p. 147
A Country Doctor: Short Prose for my Father (1920)	p. 181
The New Advocate	p. 183
A Country Doctor	p. 185
In the Gallery	p. 192
An Old Journal	p. 194
Before the Law	p. 197
Jackals and Arabs	p. 199
A Visit to the Mine	p. 204
The Neighbouring Village	p. 208
A Message from the Emperor	p. 209
The Worries of a Head of Household	p. 211
Eleven Sons	p. 213
A Fratricide	p. 219
A Dream	p. 222
A Report to an Academy	p. 225
A Hunger-Artist: Four Stories (1924)	p. 237
First Sorrow	p. 239
A Little Woman	p. 243
A Hunger-Artist	p. 252
Josefine, the Singer, or The Mouse People	p. 264
Appendix	p. 285
Aeroplanes in Brescia (1909)	p. 287
Great Noise (1912)	p. 296
The Coal-Scuttle Rider (1921)	p. 297
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