The Metamorphosis & Other Stories

By Franz Kafka
Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir

“Kafka engaged in no technical experiments whatsoever; without in any way changing the German language, he stripped it of its involved constructions until it became clear and simple, like everyday speech purified of slang and negligence. The common experience of Kafka’s readers is one of general and vague fascination, even in stories they fail to understand, a precise recollection of strange and seemingly absurd images and descriptions—until one day the hidden meaning reveals itself to them with the sudden evidence of a truth simple and incontestable.” —Hannah Arendt

This collection brings together the stories that Kafka allowed to be published during his lifetime. To Max Brod, his literary executor, he wrote: "Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these."

Paperback
315 pages
The Schocken Kafka Library, 1995
The Metamorphosis was originally published in 1915
5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches
ISBN 9780805210576
Short Stories