The metamorphosis. / Translated and edited by Stanley Corngold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Bantam literature.

Bantam literature

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

Kafka, Franz.

Genre:

Translations.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

201 pages.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bantam Books, [©1972]

Summary:

An allegorical story about a man who awakens one morning to find himself changed into a large insect. Together with selected letters, diary extracts, and critical essays.

Contents:

Introduction / Stanley Corngold.

The Metamorphosis.

A Note on the Text.

Explanation Notes to the Text.

Documents. Letter by Franz Kafka to Max Brod, October 8, 1912.

Sokel's Comments.

Tow conversations between Kafka and Gustav Janouch, 1920-1923.

Kafka to his Father, November 1919.

Entries in Kafka's Diaries.

Critical Essays. Franz Kafka / Wilhelm Emrich.

Kafka's Obscurity / Ralph Freedman.

The making of Allegory / Edwin Honig.

Kafka's Conception (Thematik) of being / Max Bense.

Kafka's fantasy of punishment / Hellmuth Kaiser.

Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" as a Death and Resurrection Fantasy / Peter Dow Webster.

Educatio for Tragedy / Walter H. Sokel.

The Writer Franz Kafka / Friederich Beissner.

Kafka the Poet / Friederich Beissner.

Commentary.

"The Metamorphosis / Hellmut Richter.

Notes:

Contains Kafka's letters, entries in Kafka's diaries and ten critical essays.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-201).

Other Format:

Online version: Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Metamorphosis.

ISBN:

9780553143089

0553143085

0606039791

9780606039796

OCLC:

504254