![]() ![]() That, in a quiet and bookish way, is some kind of small act of hope. It's a letter that comes more than a century too late, but it's finally been delivered. She's found the human inside Kafka's words imploring and beseeching and begging, in his own quiet way, for help and delivered him to us, in flesh and blood. ![]() In her new translation of Kafka's masterpiece, Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity in this macabre tale, underscoring the ways in which Gregor Samsa's grotesque metamorphosis is just the physical manifestation of his longstanding spiritual impoverishment.īernofsky has performed an act of magic with her translation. ![]() This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury, while continuing to unsettle millions of readers. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. About the Book "This fine version, with David Cronenberg's inspired introduction and the new translator's beguiling afterword, is, I suspect, the most disturbing though the most comforting of all so far others will follow, but don't hesitate: this is the transforming text for you."-Richard Howardīook Synopsis Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. ![]()
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