Description: 'When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.' With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the fantastical, Kafka thus begins his most famous short story, The Metamorphosis. A commercial traveller is unexpectedly freed from his dreary job by his inexplicable transformation into an insect, which drastically alters his relationship with his family. Kafka considered publishing it with two of the stories included here in a volume to be called Punishments. The Judgement also concerns family tensions, when a power struggle between father and son ends with the father passing an enigmatic judgement on the helpless son. The third story, In the Penal Colony, explores questions of power, justice, punishment, and the meaning of pain in a colonial setting. These three stories are flanked by two very different works. Meditation, the first book Kafka published, consists of light, whimsical, often poignant mood-pictures, while in the autobiographical Letter to his Father, Kafka analyses his difficult relationship in forensic and devastating detail. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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EAN: 9780199238552
UPC: 9780199238552
ISBN: 9780199238552
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Book Title: Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2009
Topic: European / German, Short Stories (Single Author), General, Literary
Item Height: 0.5 in
Genre: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Item Weight: 5.6 Oz
Author: Franz Kafka, Ritchie Robertson, Joyce Crick
Item Length: 7.7 in
Item Width: 5 in
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
