‘Weer een dag zonder brief,’ verzucht Kafka in een brief aan Milena Pollak van 7 augustus 1920 – waarmee hij maar duidelijk wilde maken dat er in ieder geval elke dag één brief van haar hoorde te komen. En dat hij er haar minstens één moest schrijven. Liefst meer.Franz Kafka werd in 1883 in Praag geboren en groeide op in de Duitstalige Joodse gemeenschap in die stad. Hij overleed in Kierling, in 1924. Hij schreef veel en graag, aan vrienden (Max Brod), geliefden (Felice, Milena), fa...

'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias CanettiWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRWELLOne morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect.

When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, and his parents and sister adapt to living with a grotesque bug, Gregor notices that their attitudes towards him are changing and he ...