The Metamorphosis: A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky

Great book. Thank you

Textbook for college classes on graphic novels and popular culture. Its a generic history textbook and bilingual edition.

A very interesting read, however it was a little slow. This made it perfect for reading on a plane, but if I had other options around I may not have gotten through it since my interest would have been drawn to something else.

Mine came in perfect condition. Great book

You haven’t read The Metamorphosis? You haven’t?!? Run and do it and pray you won’t wake up as a bug in your own bed the next morning, to spend your life… Erm, yes, this is where I need to stop. Number one, please don’t read the introduction. This particular translation is fantastic, but! I wish I’d been warned about the spoilers upfront. Read the novella first, THEN read the introduction. It has ruined the ending for me, well, ruined is too strong of a word, let’s say, I really wish I didn’t know. Although this brilliant macabre story is over 100 years old, I didn’t know how it ends, and I was disappointed to find out before reading it. This was my first Kafka (I know, you can stop pointing your fingers now) and I got enthralled to the point of forgetting myself until I got to the end. You might have heard it’s a story of a salesman waking up one morning as a monstrous vermin. But it’s much more than that. It has dark humor to it. It’s a story of turning mute, being unable to communicate with the world, your own family first and foremost, it’s a grotesque depiction of what it’s like to be alien. I don’t mean some green alien creature with antennae sticking out of its head, I mean alien as in not fitting in. We’ve all gone through this toil, either in our teens or later, when we decided to change our lives or careers and have been met with mute stares of those who simply didn’t get what we were doing, why, labeled us as alien creatures and cut off contact. It’s why I think The Metamorphosis is so poignant today as it was when it was first published. Now, go read it, hope you still have two legs and not eight tomorrow when you find yourself in bed, awake, staring at the ceiling.

Muy bueno

This is not a review for the book or translation. It's for the paperback book quality. It was new. But the printing quality is not great. Look at the front and back. It's either printed wrong size or the cutting was off. The publisher should have better quality control for their product. It was like receiving an ARC.

Susan Bernofsky's new translation breathes new life into Kafka's Metamorphosis, as her voice lets the humor, colloquialisms, and unrefined strangeness of the German original to come out. Kafka's novella sets the standard for all modernism, though it is a standard that in its development disarticulates the foundations of literature in their inherited stiffness (character, plot, motivating incident, etc.). A mordantly brilliant and compellingly relevant book.