![]() ![]() Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert ![]() About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. ![]() There is also a Biographical Preface, an up-to-date bibliography, and a chronology of Kafka's life. This new translation by Joyce Crick pays particularĪttention to the nuances of Kafka's style, and the Introduction and notes by Ritchie Robertson provide guidance to this most enigmatic and rewarding of writers. Meditation, the first book Kafka published, consists of light, whimsical, often poignant mood-pictures, while the autobiographical Letter to his Father analyzes his difficult relationship with his father in devastating detail. The Judgment explores an enigmatic power struggle between a father and son, while In the Penal Colony examines questions of power, justice, punishment, and the meaning of pain in a colonial setting. Stories included here in a volume to be called Punishments. Kafka considered publishing it with two of the So begins Kafka's famous short story, The Metamorphosis. It is one of the most memorable first lines in all of literature: When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin. ![]()
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