The metamorphosis : translation, backgrounds and contexts, criticism /
Franz Kafka ; translated and edited by Stanley Corngold.
- 1st ed.
- New York : W.W. Norton, c1996.
- xi, 218 p. ; 22 cm.
- A Norton critical edition. .
- Norton critical edition. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218)
The text of The metamorphosis -- Kafka's manuscript revisions -- from Wedding preparations in the country / Franz Kafka -- Letters and diaries -- from Conversations with Kafka / Gustav Janouch -- Kafka's The metamorphosis : metamorphosis of the metaphor / Stanley Corngold -- Elements of Jewish folklore in Kafka's Metamorphosis / Iris Bruce -- Transforming Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis / Nina Pelikan Straus -- Competing theories of identity in Kafka's The metamorphosis / Kevin W. Sweeney -- Sliding down the evolutionary ladder? : aesthetic autonomy in The metamorphosis / Mark M. Anderson -- The metamorphosis : the long journey into print / Hartmut Binder -- Kafka's Metamorphosis and the writing of abjection / Eric Santner -- Franz Kafka : a chronology.
A novel about a man who finds himself transformed into a huge insect, and the effects of this change upon his life.
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Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Verwandlung. Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 --Criticism and interpretation.