Metamorphosis
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  • Published: 29 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241573730
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $26.00

Metamorphosis

A Life in Pieces

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11 Jun 2024
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31 Mar 2020
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21 May 2019
Paperback
10 Jan 2011
Paperback
6 Dec 2008
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29 Nov 2022
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16 Mar 2023
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1 Mar 2007
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16 Feb 2023
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4 Jan 2018
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15 Jan 2018
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One morning, ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach. Metamorphosis, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, is one of the twentieth century's most influential works of fiction, and is accompanied here by two more classic stories.
  • Published: 29 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241573730
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial and The Castle.

portrait photo of Franz Kafka

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Praise for Metamorphosis

He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him

Vladimir Nabokov

Kafka described with wonderful imaginative power the future concentration camps, the future instability of the law, the future absolutism of the state, the paralysed, inadequately motivated, floundering lives of the many individual people; everything appeared as a nightmare and with the confusion and inadequacy of a nightmare

Bertolt Brecht