The metamorphosis and other stories

9781554812240
1554812240

165 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Short stories. Selections. English

Translation of selected short stories by Franz Kafka, including Die verwandlung
Includes bibliographical references
Translated from the German

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Before the law
The metamorphosis
A report for an academy
An imperial message
In the penal colony
A hunger artist
In context. A. Kafka's life and writing
Selections from Kafka's letters
From Franz Kafka, 'Letter to his father' (written 1919)
Photographs of Kafka and his family
B. Philosophical and literary contexts
From Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, 'Venus in furs' (1870)
From Friedrich Nietzsche, 'On the genealogy of morals: a polemical tract' (1887)
From Friedrich Nietzsche, 'Thus spake Zarathustra: a book for all and none' (1883-91)
From Sigmund Freud, 'On the interpretation of dreams' (1899)
From Octave Mirbeau, 'The torture garden' (1899)
C. Hagenbeck and the modern zoo
From Carl Hagenbeck, 'Beasts and men' (1908)
D. Hunger artists
From "Professional fasting," 'Daily news' (3 April 1890)
From "Succi breaks his fast," 'The New York times' (21 December 1890)
From "Succi, the fasting man," 'The lancet' (28 April 1888)

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Byrne, Paul Johnson, writer of supplementary textual content
Johnston, Ian (Ian Courtenay), 1938- translator
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Verwandlung. English