Hofmann, Michael

'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'

How does a dog see the world? How do any of us?

Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that he thought worthy of publication.

One morning, ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach.

A lyrical translation of Kafka´s first novel – a menacing allegory of modern life.

After Franz Kafka's death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of literary disobedience, his executor refused to agree to Kafka's wish that his great mass of unpublished fiction be destroyed.