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The Metamorphosis: Translation Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism
The Metamorphosis Translation Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism Author:Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (Translator) A novel about a man who finds himself transformed into a huge insect, and the effects of this change upon his life. Fully annotated and accompanied by selected textual variants. — Backgrounds and Contexts introduces readers to The Metamorphosis in the richest possible setting. The links between the author's life and his work ar... more »e explored through an examination of his personal writings. Kafka's letters and diary entries illuminate the creative process behind his portrait of Gregor Samsa, his family, and their nightmarish ordeal. Criticism collects seven essays from the period 1970-95 representing the most important currents in literary theoryâsemiotics, feminism, identity philosophy, New Historicism, and post-Freudian cultural psychoanalysis. The essays offer a variety of perspectives on the novella by Iris Bruce, Nina Pelikan Straus, Kevin W. Sweeney, Mark Anderson, Hartmut Binder, Eric Santner, and Stanley Corngold. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.« less
The story is only 43 pages long, the rest is commentary and criticism. "Ungeheuer" is translated as "vermin" in this translation, which isn't as exciting as "cockroach."