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Author: Franz Kafka
Publisher: Minoas Editions
Year of publication: 2019
ISBN: 978-618-02-1181-8
Pages: 244
Dimensions: 13 x 20
Cover: Paperback
Description
Traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed into a giant insect. His initial surprise is followed by agony, a nightmare that is utterly real, experienced without ever illuminating its underlying cause. His parents are initially shocked, but they quickly realize the situation and accept it. They remain silent, they suffer, they endure, and they retreat into their private, enclosed microcosm. Franz Kafka’s most famous short story is a parable full of symbolism.
This edition also includes:
- “The Judgment”, Kafka’s first completed short story, written in just eight hours one September night in 1912.
- “In the Penal Colony”, A place of punishment and absolute horror where Evil reigns, written in October 1914.
- “A Country Doctor”, One of his most enigmatic and mysterious works, among the few Kafka managed to see published during his lifetime.
Four classic short stories that authentically capture the literary prowess and unparalleled creative thought of the 20th century’s leading author.
At the same time, they introduce the reader to the Kafkaesque universe of an uncanny world permeated by an atmosphere of existential angst, suffocating dead ends, and inescapable fate.