Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Benedict Cumberbatch reads Franz Kafkas famous story of man-turned-insect, MetamorphosisWinner of AudioFile Earphones Award AudioFile 2018After a night of troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a huge, monstrous, cockroach-like creature, with an armour-plated back and multiple limbs.
He is the greatest German writer of our timeSuch poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him—Vladimir Nabokov
I think of a Kafka story as a perfect work of literary art, as approachable as it is strange, and as strange as it is approachable—Michael Hofmann
I think of a Kafka story as a perfect work of literary art, as approachable as it is strange, and as strange as it is approachable—Michael Hofmann
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial and The Castle.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| EAN | 9781785299933 |
| Title | Metamorphosis |
| Release date | 2018-01-04 |
| Format | Abridged Audiobook CD |
| Studio | BBC Physical Audio |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Note | Unavailable |
| By (author) | Franz Kafka |
| Read by | Benedict Cumberbatch |