The metamorphosis and other stories
"'When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.' With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnigh...
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The metamorphosis and other stories / |c Franz Kafka ; translated Willa and Edwin Muir. |
| 246 | 3 | |a Metamorphosis, in the penal colony, and other stories | |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Schocken Books Inc., |c 1995. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |t Conversation with the supplicant -- |t Meditation -- |t The judgment -- |t The metamorphosis -- |t A country doctor -- |t In the penal colony -- |t A hunger artist -- |t Appendix: |t The first long train journey / |r by Max Brod and Franz Kafka ; |t The aeroplanes at Brescia ; |t Three critical pieces ; |t Epilogue / |r by Max Brod. | |
| 520 | |a "'When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.' With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing--though absurdly comic--meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, 'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.'"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 546 | |a In English, translated from the German. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Kafka, Franz, |d 1883-1924. |t Verwandlung. |l English |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Samsa, Gregor |c (Fictitious character) |v Fiction. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Metamorphosis |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Alienation (Social psychology) |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Short stories. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Essays. |2 lcgft | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Muir, Willa, |d 1890-1970 |e translator. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Muir, Edwin, |d 1887-1959 |e translator. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Rice, Anne, |d 1941-2021, |e writer of foreword. | |
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