Die Verwandlung: Erzahlung [Insel-Bucherei Nr. 662]
by Kafka, Franz
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Not Issued
- Seller
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Insel-Verlag, 1965. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Orange and black patterned paper-covered boards, paper title labels mounted on upper front cover and upper spine. Slight surface rubbing, minor rubbing to extremities, very nearly as issued. 73 pp. 23-30 Tausend: 1965. German edition of the work usually translated into English as "The Metamorphosis." Scarce..
Synopsis
The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of short fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world; Elias Canetti described it as "one of the few great and perfect works of the poetic imagination written during this century". The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a vermin.
Reviews
On Dec 7 2018, a reader said:
Reviewing 'The Metamorphosis' would be shimmering hubris, but it is tempting here to explain something about Ottomar Starke's dust jacket illustration. It was an essential part of Kafka's design not to identify the creature thar Gregor Samsa wakes up to be. In a letter to publishers 'Kurt Wolf' on Oct 25th 1915 he wrote: "It has... occurred to me that [Starke] might want to draw the insect itself. Not that, please, not that! I do not wish to restrict his scope, but I wish only to request it as a result of my better understanding of the story, as is natural. The insect itself cannot be drawn. It cannot be drawn even as if seen from a distance.". Few enough subsequent illustrators have respected his wishes...
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- Bookseller
- Saucony Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 064785
- Title
- Die Verwandlung: Erzahlung [Insel-Bucherei Nr. 662]
- Author
- Kafka, Franz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Not Issued
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Insel-Verlag
- Place of Publication
- Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Foreign Language;
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Fine
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- Rubbing
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- Spine
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