The Transformation (Metamorphosis) and Other Stories: Works Published During Kafka's Lifetime (Twentieth-Century Classics)
Contributors: Malcolm Pasley (Editor, Translator)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: March 1, 1995
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780140184785
First sentence: La Sentinella Bresciana of 9 September 1909 reports, and is delighted to do so: 'In Brescia we have a concourse of people such as never before, not even at the time of the great motor-car races; visitors from Venetia, Liguria, Piedmont, Tuscany, Rome, indeed even from a far as Naples; distinguished persons from France, England, America; all are jostling in our squares, in our hotels, in every spare corner of our private houses; all the prices are rising splendidly; the means of transport are inadequate to bring the crowds to the circuito aereo; the restaurants on the airfield could serve two thousand people admirably, but so many thousands are bound to defeat them; troops would be needed to protect the buffets; in the cheap areas of the field there are 50,000 spectators standing all day long.'