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A fresh translation of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" from David
Wyllie.
Karel apek's brilliant comic and satirical novel of 1936 deals with
the discovery of a sentient race of newts or salamanders, and their
subsequent transition from fairground sideshow to forced labour to
ferocious enemies of the human race. Along the way he pokes fun at
a whole range of targets, from the superficiality of Hollywood to
the arrogance of scientists. He also deals with serious subjects
such as racism, imperialism and exploitation, and is positively
prophetic on the threat of expansionism and the folly of
appeasement. This handsome new edition from Benediction Classics
uses the acclaimed 2002 translation from the Czech by David Wyllie,
with original illustrations.
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The Trial (Paperback)
Franz Kafka; Translated by David Wyllie
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"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.
The Metamorphosis is the most famous of Kafka's works. A story of
traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself
transformed into a giant insect. The Metamorphosis is open to a
wide range of interpretations most obvious are themes relating to
society's treatment of those who are different, the loneliness of
isolation. Franz Kafka was a German author of novels and short
stories. Critics regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the
20th century. Kafka's writing attracted little attention until
after his death. He published a few short stories, finished the
novella The Metamorphosis, but never finished any of his full
length novels.
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The Trial (Paperback)
David Wyllie; Edited by Sir Angels; Kafka Franz
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The Trial (Paperback)
David Wyllie; Edited by Edibooks; Franz Kafka
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The Trial (Paperback)
David Wyllie; Edited by Edibooks; Franz Kafka
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Metamorphosis (Paperback)
David Wyllie; Edited by Hollybook; Franz Kafka
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R184
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The Trial (original German title: Der Process, later Der Prozess,
Der Process and Der Prozess) is a novel written by Franz Kafka in
1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925. One of Kafka's
best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and
prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of
his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader. Like Kafka's
other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does
include a chapter which brings the story to an end. Because of
this, there are some inconsistencies and discontinuities in
narration within the novel, such as disparities in timing. After
Kafka's death in 1924 his friend and literary executor Max Brod
edited the text for publication by Verlag Die Schmiede. The
original manuscript is held at the Museum of Modern Literature,
Marbach am Neckar, Germany. In 1999, the book was listed in Le
Monde's 100 Books of the Century and as No. 2 of the Best German
Novels of the Twentieth Centur
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) was born into a German speaking Jewish
family in Prague. He wrote in German and is regarded as one of the
most influential authors of the 20th century. His works examine the
themes of transformation, alienation, bullying and the characters
are given insuperable quests. This book contains two of his most
famous stories - "Metamorphosis" and "The Trial." Metamorphosis
begins like this: "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from
troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a
horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted
his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and
divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able
to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many
legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him,
waved about helplessly as he looked." The story is harrowing, but
funny in a dark way, it explores the themes of alienation - the
guilt, inadequacy and anguish of transformation. Samsa's
predicament is perhaps the predicament we all face at times, and
especially if we suffer illness or disability. This is one of the
most influential books of all time. The Trail also starts with a
stark problem: "Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K.,
he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was
arrested. Every day at eight in the morning he was brought his
breakfast by Mrs. Grubach's cook - Mrs. Grubach was his landlady -
but today she didn't come." We never find out what Josef K was
arrested for, he is a respected worker in a bank and he has to
defend himself against a charge about which he can get no
information. This is a terrifying tale but again is comic at times.
It explores the nightmare of excessive bureaucracy, hold onto your
hat because this book is a psychological roller-coaster.
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