The Metamorphosis

<p>Franz Kafka's <i>Metamorphosis</i> - arguably the greatest, most famous and most unnerving short work of literary fiction ever written - is a hundred years old in 2015. This centenary edition offers the first complete English translation of Kafka's text (by A. L. Lloyd from 1937) plus a richly detailed new introduction to the story by novelist Richard T. Kelly, describing its genesis and the life of its creator.</p><p></p><p>In <i>The Metamorphosis</i>' unforgettable opening sentence we meet travelling salesman Gregor Samsa - on a rare overnight stay in the apartment he shares with his family, paid for by his ceaseless labour - who awakes one morning 'from a troubled dream' to find himself 'changed in his bed to some kind of monstrous vermin'. </p><p></p><p> 'There is nothing which <i>The Metamorphosis</i> could be surpassed by - one of the few great, perfect poetic works of this century.' Elias Canetti</p><p></p><p>'My greatest masterpieces of twentieth-century prose are, in this order, Joyce's <i>Ulysses</i>, Kafka's [<i>Metamorphosis</i>], Bely's <i>Petersburg</i> and the first half of Proust's fairy tale <i>In Search of Lost Time</i>.' Vladimir Nabokov</p>

• The Metamorphosis, (Paperback)
• Author: Faber Finds
• ISBN: 9780571325023
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2015-04-16
• Page Count: 132