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The Metamorphosis - A Norton Critical Edition

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Franz Kafka's classic 1915 novella remains one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Susan Bernofsky's acclaimed new translation, accompanied by the translator's note and Mark M. Anderson's preface and explanatory annotations.

About the author

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His major novels include The TrialThe Castle, and Amerika.Mark M. Anderson is Professor of Germanic Languages at Columbia University. He is the author of Kafka’s Clothes and the editor of Reading Kafka. He has written widely on literary modernism and has edited and translated contemporary Austrian writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard.Susan Bernofsky is the acclaimed translator of Hermann Hesse, Robert Walser, and Jenny Erpenbeck, and the recipient of many awards, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and the Hermann Hesse Translation Prize. She teaches literary translation at Columbia University and lives in New York.

Summary

“This fine version, with David Cronenberg’s inspired introduction and the new translator’s beguiling afterword, is, I suspect, the most disturbing though the most comforting of all so far; others will follow, but don’t hesitate: this is the transforming t

Product details

Authors Mark M. Anderson, Susan Bernofsky, Franz Kafka
Assisted by Mark M Anderson (Editor), Mark M. Anderson (Editor), Susan Bernofsky (Translation)
Publisher Norton
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 24.09.2021
 
EAN 9780393923209
ISBN 978-0-393-92320-9
No. of pages 240
Dimensions 133 mm x 212 mm x 13 mm
Weight 242 g
Series Norton Critical Editions
Norton Critical Editions
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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