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Die verwandlung. The Metamorphosis.

1915réf. 127"One of the masterpieces of the literature of the 20th century" Claude David. First edition of Kafka's masterpiece the preferred issue in illustrated wrappers. First edition the preferred issue in illustrated wrappers of one of masterpieces of world literature. The text had first been published in the magazine Die Weissen Blatter. One of the very few books that were published as Kafka was still alive. Only 800 copies were printed of which only 400 were sold. The rest of the edition was sold again with the mention of the second edition. With the famous illustration by Ottomar Starke on the front wrapper. Kafka was adamant that the illustration not depict a bug writing in a letter to the publishing house: "The insect itself must not be illustrated by a drawing. It cannot be shown at all not even from a distance." One of the most famous books of the literature of the 20th century. "On the evening of November 17 1912 a young employee of the Workmen's Accident Insurance Agency in Prague sat down to work on a 'troubling little story' that had occurred to him 'in bed' the previous night. After spending the first part of the day in the office he returned to the apartment he shared with his parents and sisters had lunch napped took a walk and then did a series of strengthening and stretching calisthenics. This was his daily ritual before settling in for the evening - and often far into the night - to what he considered his true life a life dedicated to writing. Then whether acting on a long-meditated plan or following an obscure sudden intuition he set down the words of the first hammerlike sentence of what would become his most famous story and one of the defining works of modern imaginative fiction The Metamorphosis or more simply 'The Transformation': 'When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed right there in his bed into some sort of monstrous insect.' Ever since readers have been mesmerized amused puzzled irritated and unsettled by Gregor's life-changing transformation" Mark M. Anderson ed. The Metamorphosis. A beautiful copy preserved in its original wrappers as issued. Kurt Wolff Verlag paperback

Librairie Amelie Sourget · France9 500,00 €

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