The story of K and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K's isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elu
When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, and his parents and sister adapt to living with a grotesque bug, Gregor notices that their attitudes towards him are changing and he feels increasingly alienated. One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature, ‘The Metamorphosis’ is accompanied in this volume by a selection of other classic tales and sketches by Kafka – such as ‘The Judgement’, ‘In the Penal Colony’ and ‘A Country Doctor’ – all presented in a lively and meticulous new translation by Christopher Moncrieff.
„Kontrabasistą nie można się urodzić. Kontrabasistą zostaje się z przypadku i rozczarowania” – opowiada o sobie tyleż tragiczny, co śmieszny muzyk nieudacznik, bohater monodramu rozsławionego przez Jerzego Stuhra. W dopełnieniu tej historii „o samoświadomości człowieka w jego maleńkim pokoiku” znajdziemy opowiadania „Gołąb” oraz „Trzy historie i jedno rozważanie”. Pełna swoistego humoru, błyskotliwa, niepowtarzalna proza jednego z najbardziej oryginalnych współczesnych autorów. Nie tylko dla miłośników „Pachnidła”!
Film tie-in edition of Bernhard Schlink's exceptionally powerful novel - 'A thriller, a love story and a deeply moving examination of a German conscience' [Independent on Saturday]