The metamorphosis / by Franz Kafka ; translated and edited by Stanley Corngold.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 (Author). Corngold, Stanley. (Added Author).

Summary:

A novel about a man who finds himself transformed into a huge insect, and the effects of this change upon his life. This is a fantastic horror story about a hapless man who is turned into an insect. When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction.

Record details

ISBN: 0553213695
ISBN: 9780553213690
ISBN: 0758777833
ISBN: 0329054252
ISBN: 9780758777836
ISBN: 9780329054250
Physical Description: xxii, 201 pages ; 18 cm.
Edition: Bantam classic edition
Publisher: Toronto ; Bantam Books, 1986.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Contains letters by Kafka, diary entries and 10 critical essays. Translation of: Die Verwandlung.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction / Stanley Corngold -- The Metamorphosis / [Franz Kafka] ; translated by Stanley Corngold -- Note on the text -- EXPLANATORY NOTES TO THE TEXT -- DOCUMENTS -- Letter by Franz Kafka to Max Brod, October 8, 1912 -- Sokel's comments -- Two 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 / Hellmut Kaiser -- Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" as a death and resurrection fantasy / Peter Dow Webster -- Education for tragedy / Walter H. Sokel -- The Writer, Franz Kafka / Friedrich Beissner -- Kafka, the poet / Friedrich Beissner -- Commentary -- "The Metamorphosis" / Hellmut Richter.
Target Audience Note:	1340L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR UG 10.5 12 58068.