The Metamorphosis - A Norton Critical Edition

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.

Info autore

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His major novels include The Trial, The 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.

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“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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mark M. Anderson, Susan Bernofsky, Franz Kafka
• Con la collaborazione di: Mark M Anderson (Editore), Mark M. Anderson (Editore), Susan Bernofsky (Traduzione)
• Editore: Norton
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 24.09.2021
• EAN: 9780393923209
• ISBN: 978-0-393-92320-9
• Pagine: 240
• Dimensioni: 133 mm x 212 mm x 13 mm
• Peso: 242 g
• Serie: Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Editions
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata