Metamorphosis and Other Stories

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis his most famous work an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation Meditation a collection of his earlier studies The Judgement written in a single night of frenzied creativity The Stoker the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece and The Aeroplanes at Brescia Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.|Franz Kafka (Author) Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels The Trial The Castle and Amerika were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.Michael Hofmann (Translator) Michael Hofmann is a poet and translator from the German. For Penguin he has translated four books by Hans Fallada in addition to works by Franz Kafka Ernst Jünger Irmgard Keun and Jakob Wassermann.|This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis his most famous work an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece and The Aeroplanes at Brescia Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.