Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony & Other Stories ( Schocken Kafka Library ) - Paperback
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9760805210578
ISBN
9780805210576

Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony & Other Stories ( Schocken Kafka Library )

$16.00
Author
Kafka, Franz

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial: A collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed into an insect.

To Max Brod, his literary executor, Kafka wrote: ā€œOf all my writings the only books that can stand are these.ā€

ā€œKafkaā€™s survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon: ā€˜With their posterior legs they were still glued to their fatherā€™s Jewishness and with their wavering anterior legs they found no new ground.ā€™ There is a sense in which Kafkaā€™s Jewish question (ā€˜What have I in common with Jews?ā€™) has become everybodyā€™s question, Jewish alienation the template for all our doubts. What is Muslimness? What is femaleness? What is Polishness? These days we all find our anterior legs flailing before us. Weā€™re all insects, all Ungeziefer, now.ā€ ā€”Zadie Smith, bestselling author of White Teeth and On Beauty

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