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    <body><![CDATA[Any one can relate to the main characters isolation and loneliness as a result of his transformation in Kafka's story, the Metapmorphasis, more or less.<br/>However, if you've suffered any physical transformation, such as an accident, a disease, are somehow different suddenly, or you know someone w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43283795">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[  The adjective &quot;kafkaesque&quot; has come to connote anything that is weird, creepy, anomalous, surrealistic, etc., and this collection of stories certainly testifies to that definition.  &quot;The Metamorphosis&quot; is the most comprehensible of the stories, in my opinion, although the premi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58311381">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is supposedly an improved translation compared to earlier Kafka books. Joachim Neugroschel, the translator of this volume, claims to have the direct line to Kafka's prose style and intentions. Things like this are one of the reasons that I approach all translations of non-English writers with a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24673568">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, <em>The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories</em> has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as &quot;The Judgment&quot; and &quot;The Stoker&quot; -- now includes two new stories, &quot;First Sorrow&quot; and &quot;The Hunger Artist.&quot;<p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong> The Metamorphosis </strong> holds a special place in my heart by being one of the earliest &quot;classics&quot; that I remember reading. Ever since that fateful day, I have always had a strong affinity towards Franz Kafka. <br/>Kafka has always sought a reconciliation in his works between his troubled prot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12870776">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, <em>The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories</em> has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as &quot;The Judgment&quot; and &quot;The Stoker&quot; -- now includes two new stories, &quot;First Sorrow&quot; and &quot;The Hunger Artist.&quot;</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Striving to understand the frequent usage of &quot;Kafkaesque&quot; to describe a proliferation of things literary, I found a nice bargain copy of this translation of Kafka many moons past.  I'm unsure if I accomplished my goal, being left wondering if I need to read <em>The Trial</em> to solidify that under...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42788757">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, <em>The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories</em> has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as &quot;The Judgment&quot; and &quot;The Stoker&quot; -- now includes two new stories, &quot;First Sorrow&quot; and &quot;The Hunger Artist.&quot;</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The stories are amongst the best of the surreal literature. Typical of such style, one cannot merely rely on the literal sense of the words, and a correct interpretation requires the concepts to be analyzed in an abstract and metaphorical air. The metamorphosis can be viewed as the writer's self por...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4774455">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[His works are often ambiguous and vague in defining purpose or moral meaning. Instead, there's a cacophony of events, images, and multifaceted characters that you learn to love and hate, relate to, and at the same time feel compelled to distance yourself from.    <br/><br/>He presents emotions, si...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7627497">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's taken me three tries to get through this. Kafka just doesn't grab hold of me. What can I say? I was thoroughly enjoying Metamorphosis and then it was over and (spoiler ahead!) he was dead before I knew it. I was not expecting that. I guess it's better he died than having him awake with a fresh ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3591345">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a bad collection in the least.  I didn't care too much for the stories A Country Doctor or A Report to an Academy but The Penal Colony, The Judgement, and The Metamorphosis are excellent.  Kafka has a way with words that just seem to make them work really well within the stories and make everyth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28566101">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Although these stories are written as fiction, Kafka portrays a lot of philosophy.  &quot;The Metamorphosis&quot;, possibly his most read story, shows the changing man, and possible de-evolution of mankind as well as showing how a change in a person can create what people see as unacceptable, whethe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20135978">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, <em>The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories</em> has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as &quot;The Judgment&quot; and &quot;The Stoker&quot; -- now includes two new stories, &quot;First Sorrow&quot; and &quot;The Hunger Artist.&quot;<p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[By far the best stories in this collection are his two most famous, &quot;Metamorphosis&quot; and &quot;The Penal Colony.&quot; The others I found to be a tad on the boring side.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The best-known novellas and stories of one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century. Included are &quot;The Judgment, &quot; &quot;A Country Doctor, &quot; and &quot;A Hunger Artist.&quot; New Foreword by Anne Rice.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm only really familiar with &quot;The Metamorphosis&quot; and &quot;In the Penal Colony,&quot; so my comments here only refer to those stories.  <br/><br/>These stories provide a compelling and often horrific image of industrial modernity, but they do so, strangely enough, in a form and modality...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3564564">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, <em>The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories</em> has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as &quot;The Judgment&quot; and &quot;The Stoker&quot; -- now includes two new stories, &quot;First Sorrow&quot; and &quot;The Hunger Artist.&quot;</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[C'mon! Kafka's awesome. He can be creepy and frustrating and disturbing. Never underestimate the power of the dark side.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, <em>The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories</em> has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as &quot;The Judgment&quot; and &quot;The Stoker&quot; -- now includes two new stories, &quot;First Sorrow&quot; and &quot;The Hunger Artist.&quot;</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read as a youth, was very surprised taht my teenage son chose this book to take with him on a trip around europe this year.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[loved the metamorphosis actually! It really informed my childhood. My mom read it to me.]]></body>
    
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