Metamorphosis and Other Stories

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka&#146;s works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes <i>Metamorphosis</i> his most famous work an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; <i>Meditation</i> a collection of his earlier studies; <i>The Judgement</i> written in a single night of frenzied creativity; <i>The Stoker</i> the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece <i>The Aeroplanes at Brescia</i> Kafka&#146;s eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka&#146;s literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.