Die Verwandlung
Die Verwandlung

Die Verwandlung

With illustrations by Karel Hruška and an afterword by Elisabeth Fuchs und Harald Salfellner on the writing of the story and its impact
  • 13 x 21 cm, 120 pages
  • hardback, thread-stitching, ribbon
  • ISBN 978-3-89919-641-2
  • In Stock
€ 12,90 (D)€ 13,30 (Ö)

Night has fallen on Prague’s St Nicholas Street. At long last, silence reigns in the home: father, mother and sisters have gone to bed. Only Franz is sitting wide awake behind his desk. Working rapidly, he begins to write down a disturbing story. Its first sentence opens a masterpiece that would go on to captivate millions of readers: “When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect.”

Alongside the original text from 1915, this book also includes a sequel to the “bug story”. Its author, the young expres sionist writer Karl Brand, was part of Kafka’s literary circle and knew him personally. A richly illustrated afterword on the writing of the story rounds off this Prague Edition of The Metamorphosis and makes it an editorial masterwork – a must for serious Kafka fans and for any one who wants to discover the Prague writer for themselves.

Contents Contents

♦ Chapter I
♦ Chapter II
♦ Chapter III
♦ The Retransformation of Gregor Samsa
♦ The Creation and Impact of the Text

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