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Tatjana Hauptmann, Franz Kafka, Tatjana Hauptmann (Ill.) | Die Verwandlung | English Title: The Metamorphosis<br>104 Pages

Hardcover
104 Pages
Published in May 2012

ISBN 978-3-257-02098-4
€ (D) 19.90 / (A) 20.50
sFr 28.90*
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Tatjana Hauptmann & Franz Kafka
Die Verwandlung

English Title: The Metamorphosis

Freshly discover a world literature classic: Franz Kafka’s ›The Metamorphosis‹, atmospherically illustrated by Tatjana Hauptmann. »Prague, 25 October 1915: Dear Sir! You wrote recently to tell me that Ottomar Starke will be illustrating the cover of ›The Metamorphosis‹. I just had a little shock. It just occurred to me that he might want to draw the insect itself. Not that, please not that!« Franz Kafka sent this pleading request to Kurt Wolff publishing house in 1915. Tatjana Hauptmann, who has illustrated a number of texts for Diogenes (most recently Theodor Storm’s ›Little John‹) also kept to the author’s wish: In her sensitive pencil drawings, Gregor Samsa’s disturbing world comes profoundly to life right in front of our eyes.

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»The latest edition, whose typeface is closely based on that of the original edition of 1915, feels just right not only because of the details that will please the collector, but also thanks to the sensitive illustrations by the artist Tatjana Hauptmann, born in 1950.«Kieler Nachrichten

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