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Introduction © 1988 by Harold Bloom

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Franz Kafka's The metamorphosis / edited and with an introduction by
Harold Bloom.
p. cm.—(Modern critical interpretations)
"A representative selection of the best critical interpretations of
Kafka's crucial narrative. The metamorphosis"—P.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
Contents: Gregor Samsa and modern spirituality / Martin Greenberg
— Metamorphosis of the metaphor / Stanley Corngold— The
dramatic in Kafka's Metamorphosis / Evelyn Torton Beck— The
metamorphosis / Ronald Gray— The metamorphosis, Freud, and the
chains of Odysseus / David Eggenschwiler— The impersonal narrator of
The metamorphosis / Roy Pascal— From Marx to myth: the structure
and function of self-alienation in Kafka's Metamorphosis / Walter H. Sokel
— Kafka and Sacher-Masoch / Mark M. Anderson.
ISBN: 1-55546-070-4
1. Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Verwandlung. [1. Kafka, Franz,
1883-1924. Metamorphosis. 2. German literature—History and
criticism.] I. Bloom, Harold. II. Series.

PT2621.A26V428 1988
833'.912—dc19

87-17827