The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback) Published April 12th by Dover Publications. Dover Thrift Editions, Paperback, 88 pages. Author (s): Franz Kafka, Stanley Appelbaum (Translator) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language. Summary. Kafka wrote "The Metamorphosis" at the end of , soon after he finished "The judgment," and it is worth noting that the two stories have much in common: a businessman and bachelor like Georg Bendemann of "The judgment," Gregor Samsa is confronted with an absurd fate in the form of a "gigantic insect," while Georg is confronted by absurdity in the person of his father. · Kafka was a regular at two of these coffeehouses, the Arco and the Louvre, and through the discussions there may have been introduced to new philosophical ideas. He was certainly familiar with the newly published works of Sigmund Freud, referring to Freud in his diary not long before writing The Metamorphosis.
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories. By: Franz Kafka. Narrated by: George Guidall. Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins. Unabridged Audiobook. Categories: Literature Fiction, Anthologies Short Stories. out of 5 stars. ( ratings) Add to Cart failed. Franz Kafka was born in in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," and "The Stoker." He died in , before completing any of his full-length novels. Franz Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis exists in the same terrifyingly absurd sort of world as so many of his other stories. His characters are often oppressed by isolation and a sense of futility, and as such the horror they experience is part and parcel with the very act of living.
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, by Franz Kafka, is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes Noble Classics. Meanwhile, his writing had taken a new turn in with the outbreak of the tubercular illness from which he was to die in Only a small number of Kafka’s stories were published during his lifetime, and these are published in Penguin as Metamorphosis and Other Stories. 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, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka’s eyewitness account of an air display in Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka’s literary vision and the extraordinary.
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