Translation of selected short stories by Franz Kafka, including Die verwandlung. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Before the law -- The metamorphosis -- A report for an academy -- An imperial message -- In the penal colony -- A hunger artist -- In context. A. Kafka's life and writing ; B. Philosophical and literary contexts ; C. Hagenbeck and the Modern Zoo ; D. Hunger artists.
Summary:
A man awakens to find himself transformed into a giant vermin; a performer starves himself to death as a circus attraction; a fiendish engine of capital punishment engraves the letter of the law into the body of the condemned. Such are the nightmare scenarios that emerge in the short stories of Franz Kafka, one of the twentieth century's most formative, mystifying literary figures. Though immediate in their impact, Kafka's stories invite endless angles of interpretation, from Freudian psychology and existentialist philosophy to animal studies. This volume presents "The Metamorphosis"--Together with several other of Kafka's best and best-known stories-in a nuanced, clear, and powerful translation by Ian Johnston.
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