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Uniform Title Short stories. English. Selections
Title The metamorphosis and other stories / Franz Kafka ; translated by Joyce Crick ; with an introduction and notes by Ritchie Robertson.
Author Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924, author.
Publisher Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Distributor Claremont, Surrey : Ebooks Corporation, [2009]
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Description 1 online resource (xlviii, 146 pages)
ISBN 9780191570506 e-book
0191570508 e-book
Note Electronic book available via EBL Ebook Library.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references ([xli]-xlv).
Contents Meditation -- The judgement -- The metamorphosis -- In the penal colony -- Letter to his father.
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Summary When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin. With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the fantastical, Kafka thus begins his most famous short story, The Metamorphosis. A commercial traveller is unexpectedly freed from his dreary job by his inexplicable transformation into an insect, which drastically alters his relationship with his family. Kafka considered publishing it with two of the stories included here in a volume to be called Punishments. The Judgement also concerns family tensions, when a power struggle between father and son ends with the father passing an enigmatic judgement on the helpless son. The third story, In the Penal Colony, explores questions of power, justice, punishment, and the meaning of pain in a colonial setting. These three stories are flanked by two very different works. Meditation, the first book Kafka published, consists of light, whimsical, often poignant mood-pictures, while in the autobiographical Letter to his Father, Kafka analyses his difficult relationship in forensic and devastating detail.
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System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Link Print version: Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Short stories. English. Selections. Metamorphosis and other stories. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780199238552 (DLC) 2009005387 (OCoLC)301888752
Series Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Subject Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Translations into English.
Other Author Crick, Joyce, translator.
Robertson, Ritchie, author of introduction, etc., annotator.

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