Deze schitterende Nederlandse vertaling van "Metamorfose" van Franz Kafka is een fascinerende en surreële novelle die lezers meeneemt op een bizarre en prikkelende reis van Gregor Samsa. Het verhaal ontvouwt zich als Gregor op een ochtend wakker wordt en ontdekt dat hij is getransformeerd in een reusachtig insect, wat het toneel vormt voor een diepgaande verkenning van identiteit, isolatie en de inherent vreemde aard van de menselijke conditie.

Terwijl Gregor worstelt met zijn insectachtige...

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 - 3 June 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehen-sible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted

as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known work...

A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann. Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Contemplation, a collection of his earlier short studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America; a...