The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial: A collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed into an insect.

To Max Brod, his literary executor, Kafka wrote: "Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these."

"Kafka's survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon: 'With their posterior legs they were still glued to their father's Jewishness and with their wavering anterior legs they found no new ground.' There is a sense in which Kafka's Jewish question ('What have I in common with Jews?') has become everybody's question, Jewish alienation the template for all our doubts. What is Muslimness? What is femaleness? What is Polishness? These days we all find our anterior legs flailing before us. We're all insects, all Ungeziefer, now." -Zadie Smith, bestselling author of White Teeth and On Beauty

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ISBN 13	9780805210576
ISBN 10	0805210571
Title	The Metamorphosis
Author	Franz Kafka
Series	The Schocken Kafka Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Schocken Books
Year published	1995-11-14
Number of pages	320
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.