Franz Kafka Audio

A Brilliant new translation of the great writer's least Kafkaesque novel, based on a German-language text that was produced by a team of international scholars and that is more faithful to Kafka's original manuscript than anything we have had before.

This new edition of Kafka’s terrifying and comic masterpiece is the product of an international team of experts that used Kafka’s original manuscript and notes to create this text that is as close as possible to the way the author left it.

On his deathbed, Franz Kafka asked that all his unpublished manuscripts be burned....

Franz Kafka's The Castle is one of the greatest modern novels, famous for its dreamlike quality and its richness of interpretative possibility. The protagonist of the novel, K., is plunged into confusion and frustration when he arrives at a village to take up the job of a land surveyor that no-one seems to know anything about.

Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find he has been transformed into a gigantic insect....

Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the story of Gregor Samsa, a young traveling salesman who lives with his family and financially supports his parents and younger sister...

The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung, “The Transformation”) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915, and arguably the most famous of his works along with the longer works The Trial and The Castle.

THE METAMORPHOSIS begins as its protagonist, Gregor Samsa, wakes up one morning to find that he has become a huge insect. This change is understandably difficult for Gregor, not to mention his family and business. It ends up costing him his life.

Franz Kafka's classic short novel tells the strange tale of put-upon salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning transformed into an insect.

Joseph K. works at a bank and has no particular qualities or abilities. He could be anyone.