Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis - arguably the greatest, most famous
and most unnerving short work of literary fiction ever written - is
a hundred years old in 2015. This centenary edition offers the
first complete English translation of Kafka's text (by A. L. Lloyd
from 1937) plus a richly detailed new introduction to the story by
novelist Richard T. Kelly, describing its genesis and the life of
its creator. In The Metamorphosis' unforgettable opening sentence
we meet travelling salesman Gregor Samsa - on a rare overnight stay
in the apartment he shares with his family, paid for by his
ceaseless labour - who awakes one morning 'from a troubled dream'
to find himself 'changed in his bed to some kind of monstrous
vermin'. 'There is nothing which The Metamorphosis could be
surpassed by - one of the few great, perfect poetic works of this
century.' Elias Canetti 'My greatest masterpieces of
twentieth-century prose are, in this order, Joyce's Ulysses,
Kafka's [Metamorphosis], Bely's Petersburg and the first half of
Proust's fairy tale In Search of Lost Time.' Vladimir Nabokov
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