Die Verwandlung / Edition 1

by Franz Kafka, Peter Hutchinson, Michael Minden

Overview

Franz Kafka is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century culture. The fascination of his work has long since reached international proportions, and the concept 'Kafkaesque' has entered the English Language as an everyday part of speech.
This new edition of Kafka's famous story contains a critical introduction and notes which help to explain how the author achieves his particular effects. The editors are concerned less with what the story means then with how it blocks and baffles its reader, provoking them into an interpretation through its combination of clues and counter-clues, its questions and its uncertainties. Careful attention is therefore paid to the 'openness' of the text, to point of view, and to Kafka's use of language. The editors also consider the important biographical and cultural influences which shaped the writing of the story, and they outline some of the very different ways in which it has been interpreted —biographically, socially and psychologically.
A select vocabulary, aimed at the demands of the sixth-form pupil, is also included, and the text itself is taken from the original hardback edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138139640
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/01/2016
Series:	Routledge Foreign Literature Classics
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Dr Peter Hutchinson, Dr Michael Minden

Date of Birth:

July 3, 1883

Date of Death:

June 3, 1924

Place of Birth:

Prague, Austria-Hungary

Place of Death:

Vienna, Austria

Education:

German elementary and secondary schools. Graduated from German Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION Kafka’s life, The reception of Kafka’s works, Previous interpretations of Die Verwandlung, The ‘openness’ of Die Verwandlung, The curious narrator, Kafka’s use of language NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION, SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY, DIE VERWANDLUNG, NOTES TO THE TEXT