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The Metamorphosis : And Other Stories by Franz Kafka

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Trade Paperback. Recommended! This collection brings together the stories that Kafka allowed to be published during his lifetime. To Max Brod, his literary executor, he wrote: “Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these.” Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir.

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, "The Metamorphosis." It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man.

A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, "The Metamorphosis" has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

Conversation with the Supplicant

Meditation
    Children on a Country Road
    Unmasking a Confidence Trickster
    The Sudden Walk
    Resolutions
    Excursion into the Mountains
    Bachelor’s III Luck
    The Tradesman
    Absent-minded Window-gazing
    The Way Home
    Passers-by
    On the Tram
    Clothes
    Rejection
    Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys
    The Street Window
    The Wish to Be a Red Indian
    The Trees
    Unhappiness

The Judgment

The Metamorphosis

A Country Doctor
    The New Advocate
    A Country Doctor
    Up in the Gallery
    An Old Manuscript
    Before the Law
    Jackals and Arabs
    A Visit to a Mine
    The Next Village
    An Imperial Message
    The Cares of a Family Man
    Eleven Sons
    A Fratricide
    A Dream
    A Report to an Academy
    The Bucket Rider

In the Penal Colony

A Hunger Artist
    First Sorrow
    A Little Woman
    A Hunger Artist
    Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk

Appendix
    The First Long Train Journey, by Max Brod and Franz Kafka
    The Aeroplanes at Brescia
    Three Critical Pieces
    Epilogue by Max Brod

The Metamorphosis : And Other Stories by Franz Kafka

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