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1 online resource (xlix, 312 pages). |
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text file rda |
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Modern library classics |
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Modern Library classics.
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| Summary |
"Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold Featuring essays by Philip Roth, W.H Auden, and Walter Benjamin "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing--though absurdly comic--meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. This Modern Library edition collects Stanley Corngold's acclaimed English translation--long hailed as the gold standard by scholars and general readers alike--along with six critical essays by writers including Philip Roth, W.H. Auden, and Walter Benjamin, background and contextual material, and a new Introduction from Corngold himself"-- Provided by publisher. |
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""When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing--though absurdly comic--meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.""-- Provided by publisher. |
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670L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.2 8 30226 |
| Summary |
When Gregor Samsa awakens one morning, he discovers that he has changed into a giant dung beetle. |
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"Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold Featuring essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing--though absurdly comic--meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. This Modern Library edition collects Stanley Corngold's acclaimed English translation--long hailed as the gold standard by scholars and general readers alike--along with six critical essays by writers including Philip Roth, W. H. Auden, and Walter Benjamin, background and contextual material, and a new Introduction from Corngold himself"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-312). |
| Contents |
The metamorphosis -- Critical essays. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Verwandlung. English.
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Samsa, Gregor (Fictitious character) |
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Verwandlung (Kafka, Franz) |
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Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
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Samsa, Gregor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Metamorphosis -- Fiction.
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Alienation (Social psychology) |
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Metamorphosis. |
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Corngold, Stanley, translator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Metamorphosis New York : Modern Library, 2013 9780812985146 (DLC) 2013021937 (OCoLC)825733383 |
| ISBN |
9780812985191 : $45.00 |
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0812985192 : $45.00 |
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