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Title: The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka ISBN: 0-486-29030-1 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 12 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Look, I'm a Bug!
Comment: "Look, I'm a Bug!" No, no, no... the plight of Gregor Samsa as he awoke as a beetle is no laughing matter. In this tidy little Dover edition, Kafka's famous short story breathes of the futility and alienation men face, and the fear in the midst of it all.
"The Metamorphosis and Other Stories" is worth every penny.
The beauty of the Dover edition is the ability to sample Kafka, rather than indulge in a complete works. He is not for everyone, but at such an inexpensive price, you'll get to taste his style and complex ideas.
Note that there are several stories here, including the oddly-styled one paragraph "A Country Doctor," which effectively challenges the view of common man of the almost godlike pedestal we put doctors on.
Stories include:
The Judgment
The Metamorphosis
In a Penal Colony
A Country Doctor
A Report to an Academy
I fully recommend "The Metamorphosis and Other Stories" by Franz Kafka. The price can't be beat, and would make a great addition to a larger Amazon purchase.
Anthony Trendl
Rating: 4
Summary: Powerfully Disturbing
Comment: This thin edition, containing only a few of Kafka's short stoires, seems unlikely to cause the powerfully disturbing reactions that it brings out in its readers. In his story "The Metamorphosis," Kafka writes a tale of how a salesman turns into a bug overnight. As unlikely as this situation sounds, Kafka succeeds in making the situation seem real by going into extreme detail about both the physical and emotional effects of the character's metamorphosis. Although logic prevents anyone from actually believing they may turn into a bug, readers can still relate to the common emotions of the story, of being alienated and unwanted, of being a cumbersme burden unto others. The other stories in the edition are equally engaging and disturbing in their realistic, sometimes frightful descriptions.
Rating: 4
Summary: More than just "The Metamorphosis"
Comment: As someone who had only read "The Metamorphosis," I found this collection of Kafka's works to be very refreshing. Since I had not enjoyed reading "The Metamorphosis" in high school I was skeptical about reading other works by Kafka. I was pleasantly surprised when I read "In the Penal Colony", "A Country Doctor", and "A Report to an Academy." These works were assigned as part of a college class I had, and I found that they were not only very personally thought provoking, but they inspired a lot of insightful in-class discussion. I would recommend this collection to anyone who has not yet read any of Kafka's works, or who have only read The Metamorphosis.
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Title: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ISBN: 0486264645 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Death in Venice by Thomas Mann ISBN: 0486287149 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 10 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky ISBN: 067973452X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Marquise of O--, and Other Stories by Heinrich Von Kleist, Heinrich Von Kleist, David Luke ISBN: 0140443592 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1978 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Candide by Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet ISBN: 0486266893 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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