This Norton Critical Edition includes: "Distinguishes itself from previous translations in its first sentence." ― Slate "Susan Bernofsky's new, exacting translation shows just how ingenious the structure of [ The Metamorphosis ] is, and just how difficult it is to render Kafka's German into English. She succeeds brilliantly, however, with a vivid fidelity to Kafka's vision, driving home the way he makes us at once sympathetic to his anti-hero, Gregor Samsa, and repulsed by him.”" ― The Wichita Eagle "Vibrant . . . preserves the comedy as well as the tragedy of Kafka’s text." ― Times Literary Supplement "This is the transforming text for you." ― Richard Howard Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His major novels include  The Trial ,  The Castle , and  Amerika . Mark M. Anderson is Professor of Germanic Languages at Columbia University. He is the author of Kafka’s Clothes and the editor of Reading Kafka . He has written widely on literary modernism and has edited and translated contemporary Austrian writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard. Susan Bernofsky is the acclaimed translator of Hermann Hesse, Robert Walser, and Jenny Erpenbeck, and the recipient of many awards, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and the Hermann Hesse Translation Prize. She teaches literary translation at Columbia University and lives in New York.