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The metamorphosis : translation, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
Uniform Title
Verwandlung. English
Title
The metamorphosis : translation, backgrounds and contexts, criticism / Franz Kafka ; translated and edited by Stanley Corngold.
ISBN
0393967972
9780393967975
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : W.W. Norton, ©1996.
Physical Description
xi, 218 pages ; 22 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 4508: Number line: "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10" on title page verso indicates 1st printing. Paperbound. Autograph: "Samuel R. Delany". From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Notes
Text in English ; translated from German.
Summary
A novel about a man who finds himself transformed into a huge insect, and the effects of this change upon his life.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 10, 2020
Series
Norton critical edition
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218).
Contents
The text of The metamorphosis
Kafka's manuscript revisions
from Wedding preparations in the country / Franz Kafka
Letters and diaries
from Conversations with Kafka / Gustav Janouch
Kafka's The metamorphosis : metamorphosis of the metaphor / Stanley Corngold
Elements of Jewish folklore in Kafka's Metamorphosis / Iris Bruce
Transforming Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis / Nina Pelikan Straus
Competing theories of identity in Kafka's The metamorphosis / Kevin W. Sweeney
Sliding down the evolutionary ladder? : aesthetic autonomy in The metamorphosis / Mark M. Anderson
The metamorphosis : the long journey into print / Hartmut Binder
Kafka's Metamorphosis and the writing of abjection / Eric Santner
Franz Kafka : a chronology.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Fiction.
Annotations (Provenance) - 20th century.
Also listed under
Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Working Library.
United States New York (State) New York.
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