The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

ISBN-13: 9781554812240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 168 str.

Franz Kafka;Ian Johnston;Joseph Black

Opis

A man awakens to find himself transformed into a giant vermin; a performer starves himself to death as a circus attraction; a fiendish engine of capital punishment engraves the letter of the law into the body of the condemned. Such are the nightmare scenarios that emerge in the short stories of Franz Kafka, one of the twentieth centuryAEs most formative, mystifying literary figures. Though immediate in their impact, KafkaAEs stories invite endless angles of interpretation, from Freudian psychology and existentialist philosophy to animal studies. This volume presents oThe Metamorphosisoutogether with several other of KafkaAEs best and best-known storiesuin a nuanced, clear, and powerful translation by Ian Johnston. The appendices provide philosophical, literary, and cultural context, as well as valuable selections from KafkaAEs own letters and drawings.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Before the Law
The Metamorphosis
A Report for an Academy
An Imperial Message
In the Penal Colony
A Hunger Artist

In Context

1. Kafka’s Life and Writing
1. Selections from Kafka’s Letters
2. from Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father (written 1919)
3. Photographs of Kafka and His Family
2. Philosophical and Literary Contexts
1. from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs (1870)
2. from Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemical Tract (1887)
3. from Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None(1883–92)
4. from Sigmund Freud, On the Interpretation of Dreams (1899)
5. from Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden (1899)
3. Hagenbeck and the Modern Zoo
1. from Carl Hagenbeck, Beasts and Men (1908)
4. Hunger Artists
1. from “Professional Fasting,” Daily News (3 April 1890)
2. from “Succi Breaks His Fast,” The New York Times (21 December 1890)
3. from “Succi, the Fasting Man,” The Lancet (28 April 1888)

Permissions Acknowledgment