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The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: With Two New Stories Paperback – 22 May 2000

by Franz Kafka (Author), Joachim Neugroschel (Translator, Editor)
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Including his most widely recognized short works, as well as two new stories, this translation of Franz Kafka's writings illuminate one of the century's most controversial writers.

Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories.

Neugroschel's translation of Kafka's work has made this controversial and monumental writing accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works--including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as "The Judgment" and "The Stoker"--now includes two new stories, "First Sorrow" and "The Hunger Artist."

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  1. ISBN-10
    0684800705
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0684800707
  3. Publication date
    22 May 2000
  4. Part of series
    The Schocken Kafka Library
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    13.34 x 2.54 x 20.32 cm
  7. Print length
    352 pages
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"Joachim Neugroschel's version is an advance over previous translations of Kafka into English." --Harold Bloom, author of How to Read and Why

"In Neugroschel's version we see more of Kafka's meaning, his unexpected comedy....In this version, we have for the first time the sense of understanding Kafka's complexity and where it might lead us." --Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune

"Joachim Neugroschel has provided something that was badly needed--an accurate translation of Kafka's stories into English. Kafka is difficult to translate, and the version we all know--by Edwin and Willa Muir--is full of mistakes. Neugroschel's translation is much closer to Kafka's German." --Ronald Hayman, author of K: A Biography of Kafka and Proust

"In Kafka, I have found a portion of my own experience of the world, of myself, and of my way of being in the world." --Václav Havel

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Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883, where he lived until his death in 1924. Widely esteemed as one of the twentieth century's most important writers, he is the author of the novels The Trial and The Castle.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner Book Company (22 May 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0684800705
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0684800707
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.34 x 2.54 x 20.32 cm
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless read.
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Printing and binding were excellent on my copy.
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1.0 out of 5 stars not cut evenly
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if you think you will get a properly cut one then no, you won’t. everybody gets that ugly cut book and guess what- paper quality isn’t even that bad and the book is overall fine but these unevenly cut pages Aaaa
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if you think you will get a properly cut one then no, you won’t. everybody gets that ugly cut book and guess what- paper quality isn’t even that bad and the book is overall fine but these unevenly cut pages Aaaa
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5.0 out of 5 stars Metamorphose
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Très bien
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imran kazi
1.0 out of 5 stars Wrong translator name in description
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This is not a review of the book but I would like to point out that the Kindle wdition I've bought is not a translation of Joachim Neugroschel, rather the same old Willa and Edwin Muir. This is utterly misleading. I have bought the book just because I have seen so much praise for the translation of Joachim Neugroschel. Giving 1 star.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Wrong translator name in description
Reviewed in India on 14 June 2017
This is not a review of the book but I would like to point out that the Kindle wdition I've bought is not a translation of Joachim Neugroschel, rather the same old Willa and Edwin Muir. This is utterly misleading. I have bought the book just because I have seen so much praise for the translation of Joachim Neugroschel. Giving 1 star.
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Richard Weems
5.0 out of 5 stars Even better reading again
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Brod got a good bit of it wrong. The Trial was of course well worth saving from the fire, but that and this collection of stories would have well set a legacy unto themselves. Though I think the Muirs translation is rather clunky, the stories themselves are just magnificent. I hadn't actually read The Metamorphosis since grad school, and even now being able to look behind the curtain a bit is of no problem and only lends further depth to my awe. My absolute fav remains In the Penal Colony--a story as biting now in its handling of tradition and its adherents as any. Kafka is a name for a reason, and not because Brod saved a lot of fragments from the flame. This collection is more than most writers could ever hope to accomplish.
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