"Selected Stories of Franz Kafka" by Franz Kafka (Vintage)

A vintage, probably first edition, possibly first printing of "The Modern Library" edition published in 1952

Book is in Good condition with pages and binding tight. Dust cover in good condition but shows some shelf wear.

Franz Kafka's enigmatic, deadpan, and deeply pessimistic stories are central to literary modernism. In 'The Metamorphosis', the estrangement of everyday life becomes corporealized when Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant bug and wonders how he is going to get to work on time. Kafka inverts the implied degradation of a man's transformation into an animal in 'A Report of the Academy', an ape's address to a group of scientists.