The Transformation (Metamorphosis) and Other Stories Works Published During Kafka's Lifetime

by Kafka, Franz; Pasley, Malcolm; Pasley, Malcolm

• ISBN13: 9780140184785
• ISBN10: 0140184783
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-03-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

A companion volume to The Great Wall of China and Other Short Works, these new translations bring together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. This volume contains his most famous story. The Transformation, more popularly known as Metamorphosis. Other works include 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 Fasting Artist, a collection of stories written towards the end of Kafka's life. There is also a fascinating occasional piece, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eye-witness account of an air display in 1909. Taken together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought. @bugged-out I seem to have transformed into a large bug. Has this ever happened to any of you? No solution on Web MD. From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less

Author Biography

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	vii
Notes	ix
The Aeroplanes at Brescia	1	(10)
Meditation	11	(26)
Children on the Country Road	11	(4)
Unmasking a Confidence Trickster	15	(2)
The Sudden Walk	17	(1)
Resolutions	18	(1)
The Excursion into the Mountains	19	(1)
The Fate of the Bachelor	20	(1)
The Businessman	21	(2)
A Stray Glance from the Window	23	(1)
The Way Home	24	(1)
The Men Running Past	25	(1)
The Passenger	26	(1)
Clothes	27	(1)
The Rejection	28	(1)
For the Consideration of Amateur Jockeys	29	(1)
The Window on the Street	30	(1)
Longing to be a Red Indian	31	(1)
The Trees	32	(1)
Unhappiness	33	(4)
The Judgement. A Story	37	(11)
The Stoker. A Fragment	48	(28)
The Transformation	76	(51)
In the Penal Colony	127	(27)
A Country Doctor. Little Tales	154	(42)
The New Advocate	154	(2)
A Country Doctor	156	(6)
Up in the Gallery	162	(1)
A Leaf from an Old Manuscript	163	(2)
Before the Law	165	(2)
Jackals and Arabs	167	(4)
A Visit to the Mine	171	(3)
The Next Village	174	(1)
A Message from the Emperor	175	(1)
A Problem for the Father of the Family	176	(2)
Eleven Sons	178	(5)
A Fratricide	183	(2)
A Dream	185	(2)
A Report to an Academy	187	(9)
The Coal-Scuttle Rider	196	(3)
A Fasting-Artist. Four Stories	199	(1)
First Sorrow	199	(3)
A Little Woman	202	(8)
A Fasting-artist	210	(10)
Josefine, the Songstress or: The Mouse People	220