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001 2015013869
003 DLC
005 20151203085753.0
008 150424s2015 nyu b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2015013869
020 $a9780393923209 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
041 1 $aeng$hger
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPT2621.A26$bV413 2015
082 00 $a833/.912$223
100 1 $aKafka, Franz,$d1883-1924,$eauthor.
240 10 $aVerwandlung.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe Metamorphosis :$ba new translation ; texts and contexts ; criticism /$cTranslated by Susan Bernofsky, Columbia University ; Edited by Mark M. Anderson, Columbia University.
250 $aFirst edition.
263 $a1508
264 1 $aNew York :$bW. W. Norton & Company,$c[2015]
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aA Norton Critical Edition
520 2 $aFranz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. The Metamorphosis is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. In her new translation of Kafka's masterpiece, Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity in this macabre tale, underscoring the ways in which Gregor Samsa's grotesque metamorphosis is just the physical manifestation of his longstanding spiritual impoverishment. Mark Anderson's critical apparatus brings together a wide variety of analyses of the existential story, ranging from the psychological vantages of Sacher-Masoch and Nietzsche to focuses of Kafka's relationship to animals, Judaism, and photographs. Along with snippets of Kafka's letters and diary entries concerning The Metamorphosis, a chronology and selected bibliography are also included. --$cProvided by publisher
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
600 10 $aKafka, Franz,$d1883-1924$tVerwandlung.
700 1 $aBernofsky, Susan,$etranslator.
700 1 $aAnderson, Mark M.,$eeditor.