The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and Other Stori: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Jun 2010 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Including his most widely recognized short works, as well as two new stories, this translation of Franz Kafka’s writings illuminate one of the century’s most controversial writers.

Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories.

Neugroschel’s translation of Kafka's work has made this controversial and monumental writing accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works—including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as "The Judgment" and "The Stoker"—now includes two new stories, "First Sorrow" and "The Hunger Artist."

Ratings and reviews

I have only read The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony and The Hunger Artist, but that is pretty much enough to give me an idea of Kafka. A guy turns into a giant bug. He gets an apple lodged in his back. He dies. The end. A giant torture machine is a spectacle and kills its maker and only supporter. The end. A guy who starves himself for a living dies in a cage. Turns out he doesn't eat because he doesn't like any food. The end.

What else do I need to say? One of the books that survive forever and still amaze everybody.

The Metamorphosis

About the author

Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883, where he lived until his death in 1924. Widely esteemed as one of the twentieth century's most important writers, he is the author of the novels The Trial and The Castle.