With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the fantastical, Kafka thus begins his most famous short story, The Metamorphosis. A commercial traveller is unexpectedly freed from his dreary job by his inexplicable transformation into an insect, which drastically alters his relationship with his family. Kafka considered publishing it with two of the stories included here in a volume to becalled Punishments. The Judgement also concerns family tensions, when a powerstruggle between father and son ends with the father passing an enigmatic judgement on the helpless son. The third story, In the Penal Colony, explores questions of power, justice, punishment, and the meaning of pain in a colonial setting. These three stories are flanked by two very different works. Meditation, the first book Kafka published, consists of light, whimsical, often poignantmood-pictures, while in the autobiographical Letter to his Father , Kafka analyses his difficult relationship in forensic and devastating detail.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-923855-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés