The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories
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.”From the Trade Paperback edition.
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.”From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307496775 (0307496775)
Publish date: May 20th 2009
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Pages no: 328
Edition language: English
Although I read the whole collection it is the title story that intrigues me most with "In the Penal Colony" a close second. Kafka writes very strange tales. Tales that barely make sense on an intellectual level but work at a more instinctive and emotional level. "The Metamorphosis" could be a metap...
I understand the meaning behind the story, but that doesn't mean I have to like how it ended, which I don't. Sort of depressing really.
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