Franz Kafka's 1915 masterpiece is presented in the acclaimed translation by Stanley Corngold. The novella is fully annotated and is accompanied by selected textual variants.

COVER PHOTOGRAPH: View from the Charles Bridge onto the Bridge Tower of the Old City of Prague. AUTttOR'S PORTRAIT: Archiv Ktaus Wagenbach, Berlin, 1914.

Preface

The Text of The Metamorphosis

 KAFKA'S MANUSCRIPT REVISIONS

Backgrounds and Contexts

 Franz Kaff, a·From Wedding Preparations in the Country Letters and Diaries

 Gustav Janouch·From Conversations with Kafka

Criticism

 Stanley Comgold·Kat'ka's The Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis of the Metaphor

 Iris Bruce·Elements of Jewish Folklore in Kat'ka's Metamorphosis

 Nina Pelikan Straus·Transforming Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

 Kevin W. Sweeney·Competing Theories of Identity in Kafka's The Metamorphosis

 Mark M. Anderson·Sliding Down the Evolutionary Laddetic Aesthetic Autonomy in The Metamorphosis

 Hartmut Binder·The Metamorphosis: The Long Journey into Print

 Eric Santner·Kafka's Metamorphosis and the Writing of Abiection

Franz Katfka: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography