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Do not settle for the free, outdated version. Track down the Corngold. It is not the easiest way to read Kafka. It is the honest way. And once you read Gregor Samsa’s first confused thoughts about his job, his debt, and his insect body in Corngold’s unflinching prose, you will never go back to the others.

Unlike older translations (such as the Muirs') which sometimes softened Kafka's "dry" and legalistic prose, Corngold maintains the stark, bureaucratic tone of the original German. This tone creates the "Kafkaesque" tension: the more horrifying the situation becomes, the more matter-of-fact the writing remains. the metamorphosis pdf stanley corngold