Metamorphosis and Other Stories

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes

Metamorphosis

, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation;

Meditation

, a collection of his earlier studies;

The Judgement

, written in a single night of frenzied creativity;

The Stoker

, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, and

The Aeroplanes at Brescia

, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.