The Metamorphosis

• Author : Franz Kafka
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release : 29 July 2021

• Author : Kafka, Franz
• Publisher : Aegitas
• Release : 21 March 2016

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been called one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Gregor's transformation is never revealed, and Kafka himself never gave

• Author : Franz Kafka,Joyce Crick
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 09 July 2009

For the 125th anniversary of Kafka's birth comes an astonishing new translation of his best-known stories, in a spectacular graphic package.

• Author : Franz Kafka
• Publisher : W. W. Norton
• Release : 29 July 2021

A man awakens to find himself transformed into a giant vermin; a performer starves himself to death as a circus attraction; a fiendish engine of capital punishment engraves the letter of the law into the body of the condemned. Such are the nightmare scenarios that emerge in the short stories of Franz Kafka, one of the twentieth century's most formative, mystifying literary figures. Though immediate in their impact, Kafka's stories invite endless angles of interpretation, from Freudian psychology and existentialist

• Author : Franz Kafka,David Wyllie
• Publisher : FingerPrint! Classics
• Release : 29 July 2021

• Author : Franz Kafka
• Publisher : Bantam Classics
• Release : 29 July 1972

Writings by and about Kafka and textual notes accompany his translations of his early twentieth-century work about Gregor Samsa, an ordinary man who wakes up one morning only to discover that he has been transformed into a monstrous insect and must deal with his physical alteration, as well as the alienation from his family. Reprint.

• Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Publisher : MIT Press
• Release : 29 July 2021

This edition . . . provides pictures situated in the text of all the plants to which [Goethe] refers, so that we can see for ourselves the specific points to which he is drawing our attention.--Henri Bortoft, author of "The Wholeness of Nature."

• Author : Franz Kafka
• Publisher : Penguin Classics
• Release : 29 July 2021

A seemingly ordinary man, Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning only to discover that he has been transformed into a gigantic insect and must deal with the depression over his new physical alteration, as well as the rejection of his family, in a new translation, honoring the 125th anniversary of the author's birth. Reprint.

• Author : Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom
• Publisher : Infobase Publishing
• Release : 01 January 2009

Presents a collection of critical essays about Kafka's The metamorphosis.

• Author : Franz Kafka
• Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
• Release : 30 March 2005

Beginning with one of the most shocking first sentences in all of literature, Franz Kafka details the horrific tale of an absurd life. Virtually imprisoned in his room, Gregor Samsa discovers that every aspect of his existence has amounted to nothing. Even the struggling, dysfunctional family he has sacrificed to support is thriving without his financial assistance. Slowly stripped of every bit of his humanity, Gregor realizes that no man?s life, especially his, actually matters.First published in 1915, Kafka?

• Author : Franz Kafka
• Publisher : Jiahu Books
• Release : 02 January 2014

Die Verwandlung, Metamorphosis, is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Samsa's transformation is never revealed, and Kafka never did give an explanation. This volume contains Kafka's original German

• Author : Ulrich Beck
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 02 September 2016

We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they always were. Metamorphosis implies a much more radical transformation in which the old certainties of modern society are falling away and something quite new is emerging. To grasp this metamorphosis of the world it is necessary to explore the

• Author : Harold Bloom
• Publisher : Infobase Publishing
• Release : 29 July 2021

An overview of "The Metamorphosis" features a biographical sketch of the author, a list of characters, a summary of the plot, and critical and analytical essays about the work.

• Author : Roger Williams
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release : 01 September 2006

In a time not far from our own, Lawrence sets out simply to build an artifical intelligence that can pass as human, and finds himself instead with one that can pass as a god. Taking the Three Laws of Robotics literally, Prime Intellect makes every human immortal and provides instantly for every stated human desire. Caroline finds no meaning in this life of purposeless ease, and forgets her emptiness only in moments of violent and profane exhibitionism. At turns shocking

• Author : Franz Kafka
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release : 20 January 2014

“This fine version, with David Cronenberg’s inspired introduction and the new translator’s beguiling afterword, is, I suspect, the most disturbing though the most comforting of all so far; others will follow, but don’t hesitate: this is the transforming text for you.”—Richard Howard 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