by Franz Kafka · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467033595
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«La metamorfosis y otros relatos de animales» is a collection of stories by Franz Kafka published by Austral in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together «La metamorfosis» and other tales featuring animals. In the central story, a man wakes up transformed into an insect and his new condition shatters family life; the remaining stories insist on alienation, pain and the individual's disorientation, with absurd situations that offer no moral.
Translation and edition by Miguel Salmerón. Belongs to the Contemporánea collection, volume 1.
Prescribed reading work of world literature in Catalan upper secondary education, for the 2020-2022 and 2021-2023 cohorts.
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.
