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" The metamorphosis / "
by Franz Kafka ; translated and edited by Stanley Corngold.
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BL
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986668
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b741038
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| Uniform Title
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Verwandlung.English
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| Main Entry
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Kafka, Franz,1883-1924.
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The metamorphosis /\ by Franz Kafka ; translated and edited by Stanley Corngold.
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Bantam classic ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Toronto ;New York, N.Y. :: Bantam Books,, 1986.
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| Series Statement
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Bantam classic
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| Page. NO
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xxii, 201 pages ;; 18 cm
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| ISBN
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0329054252
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: 0553213695
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: 0758777833
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: 9780329054250
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: 9780553213690
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: 9780758777836
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| Notes
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Contains letters by Kafka, diary entries and 10 critical essays.
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Translation of: Die Verwandlung.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Kafka, Franz,1883-1924-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Kafka, Franz,1883-1924., Verwandlung.
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Kafka, Franz,1883-1924.
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Metamorphosis, Fiction.
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Literature, Modern.
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Embryology, Fiction.
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Metamorphosis.
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Verwandlung (Kafka, Franz)
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| Dewey Classification
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833/.912
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| LC Classification
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PT2621.A26V413 x, 1986
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| NLM classification
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PT 2621 .A26K11m 1972
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| Added Entry
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Corngold, Stanley.
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