"Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold Featuring essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing--though absurdly comic--meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. This Modern Library edition collects Stanley Corngold's acclaimed English translation--long hailed as the gold standard by scholars and general readers alike--along with six critical essays by writers including Philip Roth, W. H. Auden, and Walter Benjamin, background and contextual material, and a new Introduction from Corngold himself"--.
year: 1986, 1972, 2006, 2009, 1988, 1981, 2005, 1999, 2013, 2003
call number/section: 1000, 873, 833.9, 833.91, 850, 833
subjects: metamorphosis, fiction, kafka, franz, 1883-1924, criticism, interpretation, etc, domestic relations, verwandlung, embryology, fiction, fiction / classics, literary criticism / general, fiction / literary
Editions
Kafka, Franz
Bantam (1986)
A young man wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle-like insect. He becomes an object of disgrace to his family and an alienated man.
Schools: 5
Kafka, Franz
Bantam Books (1972)
Schools: 1
Kafka, Franz
Waking Lion Press (2006)
A young man wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle-like insect, which causes him to become an object of disgrace to his family and an alienated man.
Schools: 1
Kafka, Franz
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks (2009)
Gregor Samsa changes overnight into a gigantic beetle, and he feels estranged from society around him while he becomes a symbol of the human condition.
Schools: 3
Kafka, Franz
Bantam (1988)
First published in 1915. A young man wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle-like insect. He becomes an object of disgrace to his family and an alienated man.
Schools: 14
Kafka, Franz
Bantam Books (1981)
Schools: 0
Kafka, Franz
(2005)
A young man wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle-like insect. He becomes an object of disgrace to his family and an alienated man.
Schools: 0
Kafka, Franz
Econo-Clad Books (1999)
Schools: 1
Kafka, Franz
Modern Library (2013)
"Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold Featuring essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing--though absurdly comic--meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. This Modern Library edition collects Stanley Corngold's acclaimed English translation--long hailed as the gold standard by scholars and general readers alike--along with six critical essays by writers including Philip Roth, W. H. Auden, and Walter Benjamin, background and contextual material, and a new Introduction from Corngold himself"--.
Schools: 0
Kafka, Franz
Crown (2003)
Schools: 0