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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Franz Kafka
from Dover Publications

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Good Deal
  Some of the other editions are about the same price but only has the Metamorphosis, while this includes a lot more!

• Kafka's Best
  This is a definitive collection of the short work of Franz Kafka, encompassing all of the greatest moods of his writing. The following stories are included.
  The Judgment is a tale of what is and what is not. A young man reveals, through a letter, that he's engaged. He reveals this to an estranged friend in St. Petersburg, but then things start to unravel as he's undone by his father's probing and accusations. His father questions him extensively and demoralizes him, while revealing his own frailty.more info

• Metamorphosis and Other Stories
  "Metamorphosis" might be the most famous, but the one really caught me was "In the Penal Settlement". I felt the same feeling as in "The Foreigner" by Albert Camus. The heat, the existentialism, the calmness and the meaning(less) of life in a whole different dimension.
  At the same time "The Burrow" and "Investigation of a dog" were incomprehensible to me...

• Almost Three Stars
  I love these Barnes & Nobles Classics editions and have read several others--and have a full shelf more to read!
  Having never read Kafka before, I really appreciated the Introduction and other extras to help me understand more about his life. I would give "The Metamorphosis" and "In the Penal Colony" three stars but I just couldn't get into the other stories.
  I understood "Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse People" about as much as I understand the Chris Kattan asexual "Mango" sketches from... more info

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