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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (2000, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100140283366

ISBN-139780140283365

eBay Product ID (ePID)129342

Product Key Features

Original LanguageGerman

Book TitleMetamorphosis

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary

Publication Year2000

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorFranz Kafka

Book SeriesPenguin Great Books of the 20th Century

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight8.8 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width6.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-709685

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Kafka's survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon: 'With their posterior legs they were still glued to their father's Jewishness and with their wavering anterior legs they found no new ground.' There is a sense in which Kafka's Jewish question ('What have I in common with Jews?') has become everybody's question, Jewish alienation the template for all our doubts. What is Muslimness? What is femaleness? What is Polishness? These days we all find our anterior legs flailing before us. We're all insects, all Ungeziefer, now." --Zadie Smith "Kafka engaged in no technical experiments whatsoever; without in any way changing the German language, he stripped it of its involved constructions until it became clear and simple, like everyday speech purified of slang and negligence. The common experience of Kafka's readers is one of general and vague fascination, even in stories they fail to understand, a precise recollection of strange and seemingly absurd images and descriptions--until one day the hidden meaning reveals itself to them with the sudden evidence of a truth simple and incontestable." --Hannah Arendt

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Grade ToUP

Dewey Decimal833.912

Synopsis-Had one to name the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relations to our age as Dante, Shakespeare , and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka is the first one would think of.- -- W. H. Auden, "Had one to name the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relations to our age as Dante, Shakespeare , and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka is the first one would think of." - W. H. Auden

LC Classification NumberPT2621.A26A26 2000