Franz Kafka's 1915 masterpiece is presented in the acclaimed translation by Stanley Corngold. The novella is fully annotated and is accompanied by selected textual variants.
COVER PHOTOGRAPH: View from the Charles Bridge onto the Bridge Tower of the Old City of Prague. AUTttOR'S PORTRAIT: Archiv Ktaus Wagenbach, Berlin, 1914.
Preface
The Text of The Metamorphosis
KAFKA'S MANUSCRIPT REVISIONS
Backgrounds and Contexts
Franz Kaff, a·From Wedding Preparations in the Country Letters and Diaries
Gustav Janouch·From Conversations with Kafka
Criticism
Stanley Comgold·Kat'ka's The Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis of the Metaphor
Iris Bruce·Elements of Jewish Folklore in Kat'ka's Metamorphosis
Nina Pelikan Straus·Transforming Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis
Kevin W. Sweeney·Competing Theories of Identity in Kafka's The Metamorphosis
Mark M. Anderson·Sliding Down the Evolutionary Laddetic Aesthetic Autonomy in The Metamorphosis
Hartmut Binder·The Metamorphosis: The Long Journey into Print
Eric Santner·Kafka's Metamorphosis and the Writing of Abiection
Franz Katfka: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography