Back Die Metamorfose Afrikaans A metamorfosis AN المسخ (رواية) Arabic Çevrilmə (roman) Azerbaijani چئوریلمه (رومان) AZB Метаморфозата Bulgarian দ্য মেটামরফোসিস Bengali/Bangla An Treuzstummadur Breton La transformació Catalan مەسخ (کورتەڕۆمان) CKB
 Front cover of a 1916 edition | |
| Author | Franz Kafka |
|---|---|
| Original title | Die Verwandlung |
| Language | German |
| Publisher | Kurt Wolff Verlag, Leipzig |
Publication date | 1915 |
| Publication place | Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic) |
| Translation | Metamorphosis at Wikisource |
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung), also translated as The Transformation,[1] is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. "monstrous vermin") and struggles to adjust to this condition. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, who have offered varied interpretations. In popular culture and adaptations of the novella, the insect is commonly depicted as a cockroach.
About 70 printed pages, it is the longest of the stories Kafka considered complete and published during his lifetime. It was first published in 1915 in the October issue of the journal Die weißen Blätter under the editorship of René Schickele. The first edition in book form appeared in December 1915 in the series Der jüngste Tag, edited by Kurt Wolff.[2]
- ^ Malcolm Pasley (tr.), Kafka, Franz, The Transformation and Other Stories, Penguin, 1992; Mark Harman (tr.), Kafka, Franz, Selected Stories, Belknap Press, 2024.
- ^ Nitschke, Claudia (January 2008). "Peter-André Alt, Franz Kafka. Der ewige Sohn. 2005". Arbitrium. 26 (1). doi:10.1515/arbi.2008.032. ISSN 0723-2977. S2CID 162142676.