by Franz Kafka · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497935487
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«La transformación (La metamorfosis)» is the story by Franz Kafka, published by Debolsillo in paperback (128 pages, in Spanish).
Gregorio Samsa turns into a monstrous bug, like a huge beetle, and the event shatters family life. The story follows his progressive isolation and his family's reaction to the impossible, in a work that reflects the alienation of the individual and marked twentieth-century literature.
This Debolsillo edition, published in 2005, belongs to the Contemporánea collection and features a translation by Juan José del Solar; the story was originally published in 1915.
Aimed at readers of classic fiction aged 14 and up and at students approaching Kafka.
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.
