by Ritchie Robertson - £7.99 Oxford University Press (2004)
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ISBN 13: 9780192804556 | ISBN 10: 0192804553
"When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect..."So begins Franz Kafka's most famous story Metamorphosis (1883-1924) - which is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the twentieth century. During his lifetime, he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known being The Transformation. All three of his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and The Man Who Disappeared [America], were published after his death and helped to found Kafka's reputation as a uniquely perceptive interpreter of the twentieth century. Kafka's fiction vividly evokes bizarre situations: a commercial traveller is turned into an insect, a banker is arrested by a mysterious court, a fasting artist starves to death in the name of art, a singing mouse becomes the heroine of her nation.
(Franz Kafka)
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