Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Franz Kafka, Michael Hofmann

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Penguin
31 March 2020

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Short stories; Fiction in translation

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

A PMC reissue of this collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann

A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, this collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; 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 fascinating occasional piece, and The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.

By: Franz Kafka
Translated by: Michael Hofmann
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 203g
ISBN: 9780241436240
ISBN 10: 0241436249
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 31 March 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod. Michael Hofmann is a poet and translator from the German. For Penguin he has translated four books by Hans Fallada, in addition to works by Franz Kafka, Ernst J?nger, Irmgard Keun and Jakob Wassermann.