The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)

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Hardcover, 224 pages

English language

Published Sept. 20, 2004 by Barnes & Noble Classics.

ISBN:
978-1-59308-180-5
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4 stars (1 review)

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka'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', Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.

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reviewed Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka

good collection of kafka's work

4 stars

kafka's storytelling is a bit inscrutable to me. it's realistic in the sense that things just happen for a while without there being an apparent point or conclusion, but also of course it frequently contains fantastical elements. still I enjoyed reading it if only for the writing—which was effective at eliciting emotion, if not conveying it—and not for the social mores.

some of the stories I enjoyed most were "The Men Running Past", "In The Penal Colony", & "A Report to an Academy"

Subjects

  • Short Stories (single author)
  • General
  • Literary Criticism
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Classics
  • BG-CLASSIC EDITIONS - BG-B&N CLASSICS
  • Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
  • European - General