Experience the tale of Gregor Samsa, a seemingly mundane salesman who awakens one morning to discover he has turned into a giant cockroach. Metamorphosis, Kafka's magnum opus of discomfort and dark wit, remains one of the twentieth century's most influential works of fiction, and is accompanied here by two additional classic stories.
'He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him' - Vladimir Nabokov.
Born into a Jewish family in Prague, Franz Kafka (1883-1924) had several story collections published during his lifetime, while his novels - The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika - were released posthumously through his editor, Max Brod.
- ISBN: 9780241573730
- Length: 144 pages
- Dimensions: 167mm x 19mm x 120mm
- Weight: 180g