The metamorphosis
Subtitle: a new translation, texts and contexts, criticism
By: Franz Kafka ; translated by Susan Bernofsky, Columbia University ; edited by Mark M. Anderson, Columbia University
Contributors: Bernofsky, Susan, translator; Anderson, Mark M., editor
Edition: First edition.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780393923209
Work titles: Verwandlung
Description: "Franz Kafka 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. The Metamorphosis is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. In her new translation of Kafka masterpiece, Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity in this macabre tale, underscoring the ways in which Gregor Samsa's grotesque metamorphosis is just the physical manifestation of his longstanding spiritual impoverishment. Mark Anderson's critical apparatus brings together a wide variety of analyses of the existential story, ranging from the psychological vantages of Sacher-Masoch and Nietzsche to focuses of Kafka relationship to animals, Judaism, and photographs. Along with snippets of Kafka letters and diary entries concerning The Metamorphosis, a chronology and selected bibliography are also included"--
Notes: Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-210).

Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: List of Illustrations
pagenum: vii; title: Preface
pagenum: ix; title: Translator's Note
pagenum: xv; title: The Text of _The Metamorphosis_
pagenum: 1; title: Texts and Contexts
pagenum: 49; title: Kafka
pagenum: 51; title: From Wedding Preparations in the Country
pagenum: 51; title: Kafka, Max Brod and Editors on _The Metamorphosis_
pagenum: 52; title: Kafka's Contemporaries
pagenum: 69; title: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, From Venus in Furs
pagenum: 69; title: Friedrich Nietzsche; title: From On the Use and Abuse of History
pagenum: 75; title: From Thus Spoke Zarathustra
pagenum: 78; title: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, From [The Lord Chandos Letter]
pagenum: 83; title: Rainer Maria Rilke
pagenum: 86; title: Der Panther
pagenum: 87; title: The Panther
pagenum: 87; title: Archaischer Torso Apollos
pagenum: 88; title: Archaic Torso of Apollo
pagenum: 88; title: Johannes V. Jensen, The Condignog
pagenum: 89; title: Jakob von Uexküll, From The Environment and Inner World of Animals
pagenum: 95; title: Criticism
pagenum: 101; title: Günther Anders, From Franz Kafka
pagenum: 1103; title: Walter H. Sokel, Kafka's "Metamorphosis" Rebellion and Punishment
pagenum: 117; title: Nina Pelikan Straus, Transforming Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis"
pagenum: 129; title: Mark M. Anderson, Sliding Down the Evolutionary Ladder? Aesthetic Autonomy in The Metamorphosis
pagenum: 144; title: Elizabeth Boa, Creepy-Crawlies: _The Metamorphosis_ and Gilman's _The Yellow Wallpaper_
pagenum: 161; title: Carolin Duttlinger, From Photographic Metamorphoses
pagenum: 173; title: Kári Driscoll, (A) Is for Animal: Speech and Voice in Ovid and Kafka
pagenum: 184; title: Dan Miron, [A Few Raisins and Almonds]
pagenum: 196; title: Kafka: A Chronology
pagenum: 205; title: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 209