The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis - arguably the greatest, most famous and most unnerving short work of literary fiction ever written - is a hundred years old in 2015. This centenary edition offers the first complete English translation of Kafka's text (by A. L. Lloyd from 1937) plus a richly detailed new introduction to the story by novelist Richard T. Kelly, describing its genesis and the life of its creator. In The Metamorphosis ' unforgettable opening sentence we meet travelling salesman Gregor Samsa - on a rare overnight stay in the apartment he shares with his family, paid for by his ceaseless labour - who awakes one morning 'from a troubled dream' to find himself 'changed in his bed to some kind of monstrous vermin'. 'There is nothing which The Metamorphosis could be surpassed by - one of the few great, perfect poetic works of this century.' Elias Canetti 'My greatest masterpieces of twentieth-century prose are, in this order, Joyce's Ulysses , Kafka's [ Metamorphosis ], Bely's Petersburg and the first half of Proust's fairy tale In Search of Lost Time .' Vladimir Nabokov

Product details

• Authors: Franz Kafka, A L Lloyd
• Assisted by: Richard T. Kelly (Introduction), Kelly Richard T. (Introduction), A. L. Lloyd (Translation), Lloyd A. L. (Translation)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9780571325023
• ISBN: 978-0-571-32502-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary