by Franz Kafka · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253049807
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«La Métamorphose, suivi d'une étude de Vladimir Nabokov» is Franz Kafka's short novel published in paperback (192 pages, in French).
Gregor Samsa, an exemplary employee who supports his family, wakes up one morning transformed into a huge insect. His family's reaction shifts from bewilderment to rejection, while he faces his new condition with resignation. The narrative integrates the fantastic into the everyday and addresses guilt, lack of communication, and family pressure.
Complete text edition from Le Livre de Poche, with a study by Vladimir Nabokov and translation and afterword by Brigitte Vergne-Cain and Gérard Rudent. The story, written in German, was published in 1915.
For readers of classics and fantastic fiction, and for those who want to read Franz Kafka in French.
Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe situations like those depicted in his writings. His best-known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926). He is also celebrated for his brief fables and aphorisms, which frequently incorporated comedic elements alongside the darker themes of his longer works. His work has widely influenced artists, philosophers, composers, filmmakers, literary historians, religious scholars, and cultural theorists.
