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Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Paperback – 1 July 2003

by Franz Kafka (Author), Jason Baker (Introduction), Donna Freed (Translator)
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    1593080298
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    English
  6. Dimensions
    13.18 x 1.42 x 20.32 cm
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Barnes & Noble Classics (1 July 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1593080298
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1593080297
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.18 x 1.42 x 20.32 cm
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Franz Kafka

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Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker.” He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.

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Franz Kafka (Praga, Imperio austrohúngaro, 3 de julio de 1883 - Kierling, Austria, 3 de junio de 1924) fue un escritor de origen judío nacido en Bohemia que escribió en alemán. Su obra está considerada una de las más influyentes de la literatura universal y está llena de temas y arquetipos sobre la alienación, la brutalidad física y psicológica, los conflictos entre padres e hijos, personajes en aventuras terroríficas, laberintos de burocracia, y transformaciones místicas.

Fue autor de tres novelas, El proceso (Der Prozeß), El castillo (Das Schloß) y El desaparecido (Amerika o Der Verschollene), la novela corta La metamorfosis (Die Verwandlung) y un gran número de relatos cortos. Además, dejó una abundante correspondencia y escritos autobiográficos. Su peculiar estilo literario ha sido comúnmente asociado con la filosofía artística del existencialismo --al que influenció-- y el expresionismo. Estudiosos de Kafka discuten sobre cómo interpretar al autor, algunos hablan de la posible influencia de alguna ideología política antiburocrática, de una religiosidad mística o de una reivindicación de su minoría etnocultural, mientras otros se fijan en el contenido psicológico de sus obras. Sus relaciones personales también tuvieron gran impacto en su escritura, particularmente su padre (Carta al padre), su prometida Felice Bauer (Cartas a Felice) y su hermana (Cartas a Ottla).

El término kafkiano se usa en el idioma español para describir situaciones surrealistas como las que se encuentran en sus libros y tiene sus equivalentes en otros idiomas. Solo unas pocas de sus obras fueron publicadas durante su vida. La mayor parte, incluyendo trabajos incompletos, fueron publicados por su amigo Max Brod, quien ignoró los deseos del autor de que los manuscritos fueran destruidos.

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Jennifer Beltran
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on 28 January 2024
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Excellent book for English class. My son loved it
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Jeanne Ritson
5.0 out of 5 stars Great author
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 June 2018
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Read this book many years ago looking forward to reading it again
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Mark O'Neill
4.0 out of 5 stars Classic literature with multiple interpretations
Reviewed in Germany on 13 November 2007
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I finished this book a few days ago and it has taken me several days to understand the Kafka stories well enough to be able to write this review. This isn't due to me being "un-educated". I'm educated and I like to think of myself as being intelligent. But these stories really threw me for days and I had to end up researching the stories online to ultimately find my answers.

This is because although this is definately classic literature at its best, the stories are hard to read. More to the point, they are hard to UNDERSTAND. Each story doesn't have a climax to it. It just stops suddenly and you are left by Kafka to draw your own analysis, conclusions and interpretations. So you have a story where two people are talking and suddenly one of them jumps in a river and kills themself. Story over. Why did that person suddenly choose to end their life? That's up to you to decide. Everyone will interpret the stories in their own way.

There lies the beauty of Kafka. Give his stories to 100 different people and you will end up with 100 different interpretations of what each story means. Some will see a social commentary in a story, others will see a psycho-analytical side to it, and so on. Others won't be able to understand a single word.

So this is not light reading by any means. Be prepared to read pages over and over again to understand them and be prepared to spend days turning each story over in your mind until you finally understand what you read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars What's not to love? It's a story about a cochroach!!!
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Who doesn't love a cochroach? Okay, nobody I know loves them but this is a classic and is certainly about far more than a man turning into a bug.
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5.0 out of 5 stars sweet, and thought provoking
Reviewed in the United States on 28 July 2015
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Interesting read. Short, sweet, and thought provoking.
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