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ISBN-10: 0393347095
ISBN-13: 9780393347098
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 01/20/2014
Dimensions: 8.10" L, 5.40" W, 0.40" H

The Metamorphosis

Translator: Susan Bernofsky
Introduction by: David Cronenberg

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Price: $10.95

Overview

Franz Kafka’s 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. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury, while continuing to unsettle millions of readers.

In her new translation of Kafka’s 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.

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Susan Bernofsky s new, exacting translation shows just how ingenious the structure of [Metamorphosis] is, and just how difficult it is to render Kafka s German into English. She succeeds brilliantly, however, with a vivid fidelity to Kafka s vision, driving home the way he makes us at once sympathetic to his anti-hero, Gregor Samsa, and repulsed by him. –Arlice Davenport"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0393347095
ISBN-13: 9780393347098
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 01/20/2014
Dimensions: 8.10" L, 5.40" W, 0.40" H
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