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The Transformation (Metamorphosis) and Other Stories: Works Published During Kafka's Lifetime (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) Paperback - 1995
by Kafka, Franz
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- Title The Transformation (Metamorphosis) and Other Stories: Works Published During Kafka's Lifetime (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
- Author Kafka, Franz
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, Harmondsworth, England
- Date March 1, 1995
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0140184783.G
- ISBN 9780140184785 / 0140184783
- Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.03 x 4.84 x 0.63 in (20.40 x 12.29 x 1.60 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Kafka, Franz - Translations into English
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95214247
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
A companion volume to The Great Wall of China and Other Short Works, these new translations bring together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. This volume contains his most famous story. The Transformation, more popularly known as Metamorphosis. Other works include 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 Fasting Artist, a collection of stories written towards the end of Kafka's life. There is also a fascinating occasional piece, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eye-witness account of an air display in 1909. Taken together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.
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La Sentinella Bresciana of 9 September 1909 reports, and is delighted to do so: 'In Brescia we have a concourse of people such as never before, not even at the time of the great motor-car races; visitors from Venetia, Liguria, Piedmont, Tuscany, Rome, indeed even from a far as Naples; distinguished persons from France, England, America; all are jostling in our squares, in our hotels, in every spare corner of our private houses; all the prices are rising splendidly; the means of transport are inadequate to bring the crowds to the circuito aereo; the restaurants on the airfield could serve two thousand people admirably, but so many thousands are bound to defeat them; troops would be needed to protect the buffets; in the cheap areas of the field there are 50,000 spectators standing all day long.'
