Metamorphosis and Other Stories

This collection gathers Franz Kafka's shorter fiction around the 1915 novella in which the travelling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes as a huge insect and becomes a burden in his family's Prague apartment. Companion pieces typically include stories of fathers and sons, a penal machine that inscribes a sentence on the condemned, village doctors, talking animals, and hunger as a public performance. Settings are offices, tenements, and unnamed courts where rules are felt but not explained. The volume is a set of independent tales around one long story, not a novel and not a continuous biography of the clerk figure.

Nine two-colour illustrations. Black slipcase.