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Metamorphosis: Franz Kafka Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka; Translated by Will Aaltonen Pearson; Introduction by Will Aaltonen Pearson
R280 R228 Discovery Miles 2 280 Save R52 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories: Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
R286 R206 Discovery Miles 2 060 Save R80 (28%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Only yesterday, Gregor Samsa was a meek salesman, browbeaten by his unappreciative employer and depended on fiercely by his ungrateful family. This morning, Gregor awakens to discover that, overnight, he has been transformed into a monstrous insect. As Gregor frantically tries to conceal his predicament, neither his family nor his unsympathetic employer accept that a terrible metamorphosis has upended his existence. Is Gregor’s condition only temporary? Will he eventually revert back to the person he was and resume his normal life? Or might he have to accept that his transformation is only an outward expression of how he—and those in his life—actually see him? First published in 1915, Kafka’s best-known tale has inspired numerous interpretations for more than a century and helped to establish the term “Kafkaesque” as a reference to a bizarre and nightmarish experience. This collection of his short fiction, in a new translation, includes more than 30 of his short stories and sketches, including “In the Penal Colony,” “The Stoker,” “The Judgment,” “A Country Doctor,” “A Hunger Artist,” and more.  

The Essential Kafka - The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback, UK ed.): Franz Kafka The Essential Kafka - The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback, UK ed.)
Franz Kafka; Series edited by Keith Carabine; Translated by John R. Williams; Introduction by John R. Williams 2
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R150 R129 Discovery Miles 1 290 Save R21 (14%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a relentless atmosphere of disorientation. Superficially about bureaucracy, it is in the last resort a description of the absurdity of 'normal' human nature. Still more enigmatic is The Castle. Is it an allegory of a quasi-feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject? The search by a central European Jew for acceptance into a dominant culture? A spiritual quest for grace or salvation? An individual's struggle between his sense of independence and his need for approval? Is it all of these things? And K? Is he opportunist, victim, or an outsider battling against elusive authority? Finally, in his fables, Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance, and no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional uncertainties and anxieties.

The Metamorphosis (Paperback, Main): A.L. Lloyd The Metamorphosis (Paperback, Main)
A.L. Lloyd; Franz Kafka
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R190 Discovery Miles 1 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The story itself, Kafka's most famous, hardly needs describing - a travelling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up one morning to find he has been transformed into an enormous bug - but Faber Finds is offering something rare, the very first English translation which has been out of print for over sixty years.

This pioneering translation by A. L. Lloyd was first published in 1937. A. L. Lloyd was multi-talented: ethnomusicologist, journalist, radio and television broadcaster, and translator. In this his centenary year (2008) Faber Finds is celebrating him in his first and last roles. His major work, Folk Song in England, is being reissued as are his Lorca and Kafka translations. As well as both being published in 1937 both were firsts; has anyone else had Spanish and German translations published in the same year?

It should also be mentioned that A. L. Lloyd was a lifelong communist. It is a delicious irony therefore that one of the first reviews of the Kafka was by Evelyn Waugh in the short-lived "Night" "and Day"; it was a good one too.

Metamorphosis (Paperback): Franz Kafka Metamorphosis (Paperback)
Franz Kafka
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R214 R164 Discovery Miles 1 640 Save R50 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
El Castillo / The Castle: Franz Kafka El Castillo / The Castle
Franz Kafka
R455 R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Save R71 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback, New edition): Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback, New edition)
Franz Kafka
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R92 Discovery Miles 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Superb collection by modern master explores the complexity, anxiety and futility of modern life. Excellent new English translations of the title story (considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work), plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." Note.

Metamorphosis (Hardcover): Franz Kafka, Michael Hoffman Metamorphosis (Hardcover)
Franz Kafka, Michael Hoffman
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R240 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R48 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. One morning, ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach. Metamorphosis, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, is one of the twentieth century's most influential works of fiction, and is accompanied here by two more classic stories. 'He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him' - Vladimir Nabokov

Metamorphosis: Franz Kafka Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka; Translated by Will Aaltonen Pearson; Introduction by Will Aaltonen Pearson
R349 R282 Discovery Miles 2 820 Save R67 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Trial - New Translation by Isabel Tucker (Paperback): Franz Kafka The Trial - New Translation by Isabel Tucker (Paperback)
Franz Kafka; Translated by Isabel Tucker
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R221 R194 Discovery Miles 1 940 Save R27 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Trial has been adapted for theatre, radio and cinema, including a major stage adaptation at the Young Vic in London 2015.

Letters to Milena (Paperback): Franz Kafka Letters to Milena (Paperback)
Franz Kafka
R311 R253 Discovery Miles 2 530 Save R58 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech, and their relationship quickly developed into a deep attachment. Such was his feeling for her that Kafka showed her his diaries and, in doing so, laid bare his heart and his conscience. While at times Milena's 'genius for living' gave Kafka new life, it ultimately exhausted him, and their relationship was to last little over two years. In 1924 Kafka died in a sanatorium near Vienna, and Milena died in 1944 at the hands of the Nazis, leaving these letters as a moving record of their relationship.

The Metamorphosis - A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky (Paperback): Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis - A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky (Paperback)
Franz Kafka; Translated by Susan Bernofsky; Introduction by David Cronenberg
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R292 R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Save R57 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Franz Kafka s 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury, while continuing to unsettle millions of readers. In her new translation of Kafka s masterpiece, Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity in this macabre tale, underscoring the ways in which Gregor Samsa s grotesque metamorphosis is just the physical manifestation of his longstanding spiritual impoverishment."

The Trial (Paperback): Franz Kafka The Trial (Paperback)
Franz Kafka; Translated by Idris Parry; Introduction by Idris Parry 1
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R247 R201 Discovery Miles 2 010 Save R46 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life - including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door - becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral.

He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka (Paperback): Franz Kafka He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka (Paperback)
Franz Kafka; Edited by Joshua Cohen
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R526 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Save R112 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback): Franz Kafka Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback)
Franz Kafka; Translated by Michael Hofmann
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R280 R228 Discovery Miles 2 280 Save R52 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Contemplation, a collection of his earlier short studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America; and an eyewitness account of an air display. Together, these stories, fragments and miniature gems reveal the breadth of his vision, his sense of the absurd, and above all his acute, uncanny wit. Translated with an introduction by Michael Hofmann

Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater - Bilingual Edition (Paperback): Franz Kafka Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater - Bilingual Edition (Paperback)
Franz Kafka; Translated by Ernst Kaiser, Eithne Wilkins
R411 R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Save R105 (26%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Trial: Metamorphosis: In the Penal Colony: Playscript (Paperback): Franz Kafka The Trial: Metamorphosis: In the Penal Colony: Playscript (Paperback)
Franz Kafka; Volume editing by Steven Berkoff; Steven Berkoff
R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Lost Writings (Hardcover): Franz Kafka The Lost Writings (Hardcover)
Franz Kafka; Edited by 'Reiner Stach; Translated by Michael Hofmann
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R491 R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Save R88 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Selected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, the seventy-four pieces gathered here have been lost to sight for decades and two of them have never been translated into English before. Some stories are several pages long; some run about a page; a handful are only a few lines long: all are marvels. Even the most fragmentary texts are revelations. These pieces were drawn from two large volumes of the S. Fischer Verlag edition Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente (totaling some 1100 pages). "Franz Kafka is the master of the literary fragment," as Stach comments in his afterword: "In no other European author does the proportion of completed and published works loom quite so...small in the overall mass of his papers, which consist largely of broken-off beginnings." In fact, as Hofmann recently added: "'Finished' seems to me, in the context of Kafka, a dubious or ironic condition, anyway. The more finished, the less finished. The less finished, the more finished. Gregor Samsa's sister Grete getting up to stretch in the streetcar. What kind of an ending is that?! There's perhaps some distinction to be made between 'finished' and 'ended.' Everything continues to vibrate or unsettle, anyway. Reiner Stach points out that none of the three novels were 'completed.' Some pieces break off, or are concluded, or stop-it doesn't matter!-after two hundred pages, some after two lines. The gusto, the friendliness, the wit with which Kafka launches himself into these things is astonishing."

El castillo (Paperback): Franz Kafka El castillo (Paperback)
Franz Kafka
R402 R340 Discovery Miles 3 400 Save R62 (15%) Out of stock

Published originally in 1926 and left ambiguous even to the day of Kafka's death, El castillo represents the high point of his writing career. Throughout the book, Mr. K is subjected to the intricate labyrinths of power and conflict, where to be human is to be a slave to a system that will use and then ultimately reject him.   La frustraciÓn, la burocracia y la alienaciÓn del individuo en su afÁn de formar parte de un sistema que invariablemente lo rechaza son temas recurrentes en la obra de Franz Kafka y, particularmente, en El Castillo. Publicado originalmente en 1926, este libro que el autor dejÓ inconcluso al dÍa de su muerte representa una de las mÁximas cumbres de su producciÓn y ocupa un sitial de privilegio en las letras universales. El seÑor K, un individuo como cualquier otro, se ve sometido a los intrincados laberintos del poder, conflicto que anticipa los tiempos que vivimos, donde el ser humano parece esclavo de sistemas que lo utilizan para luego descartarlo.

Letters to Felice (Paperback, Pbk Ed.): Franz Kafka Letters to Felice (Paperback, Pbk Ed.)
Franz Kafka; Translated by James Stern, Elisabeth Duckworth
R635 R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Save R119 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Trial (Paperback): Franz Kafka The Trial (Paperback)
Franz Kafka; Translated by Richard Stokes 1
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R220 R176 Discovery Miles 1 760 Save R44 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he will be set free, but must make regular appearances at a court in the attic of a tenement building while his trial proceeds. Although he never comes to know the particulars of his case, Josef K. finds his life taken over by the opaque bureaucratic procedures and is tormented by the psychological pressures exerted by his legal nightmare. Published the year after the author's death, but written ten years earlier, The Trial is the most acclaimed of Kafka's three novels, and is both a haunting meditation on freedom and the powerlessness of the individual in the face of state power, and an ominous pre-figuration of the totalitarian excesses of the twentieth century.

The Trial (Paperback): Franz Kafka The Trial (Paperback)
Franz Kafka; Translated by David Wyllie
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R220 R184 Discovery Miles 1 840 Save R36 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." From its gripping first sentence onward, this novel exemplifies the term ""Kafkaesque." Its darkly humorous narrative recounts a bank clerk's entrapment -- based on an undisclosed charge -- in a maze of nonsensical rules and bureaucratic roadblocks.
Written in 1914 and published posthumously in 1925, Kafka's engrossing parable about the human condition plunges an isolated individual into an impersonal, illogical system. Josef K.'s ordeals raise provocative, ever-relevant issues related to the role of government and the nature of justice. This inexpensive edition of one of the 20th century's most important novels features an acclaimed translation by David Wyllie.

Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback): Franz Kafka Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback)
Franz Kafka; Translated by Michael Hofmann 1
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R280 R228 Discovery Miles 2 280 Save R52 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, and The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.

The Metamorphosis (Paperback, Main): A.L. Lloyd The Metamorphosis (Paperback, Main)
A.L. Lloyd; Franz Kafka; Introduction by Richard T Kelly
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R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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

The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka: Franz Kafka The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka; Edited by 'Reiner Stach; Translated by Shelley Frisch
R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature—featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka’s acclaimed biographer In 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zürau aphorisms, after the Bohemian village in which he composed them. Among the most mysterious of Kafka’s writings, they explore philosophical questions about truth, good and evil, and the spiritual and sensory world. This is the first annotated, bilingual volume of these extraordinary writings, which provide great insight into Kafka’s mind. Edited, introduced, and with commentaries by preeminent Kafka biographer and authority Reiner Stach, and freshly translated by Shelley Frisch, this beautiful volume presents each aphorism on its own page in English and the original German, with accessible and enlightening notes on facing pages. The most complex of Kafka’s writings, the aphorisms merge literary and analytical thinking and are radical in their ideas, original in their images and metaphors, and exceptionally condensed in their language. Offering up Kafka’s characteristically unsettling charms, the aphorisms at times put readers in unfamiliar, even inhospitable territory, which can then turn luminous: “I have never been in this place before: breathing works differently, and a star shines next to the sun, more dazzlingly still.” Above all, this volume reveals that these multifaceted gems aren’t far removed from Kafka’s novels and stories but are instead situated squarely within his cosmos—arguably at its very core. Long neglected by Kafka readers and scholars, his aphorisms have finally been given their full due here.

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