CONTENTS Introduction by Stanley Corngold xi The Metamorphosis translated by Stanley Corngold 1 A Note on the Text 56 Explanatory Notes to the Text 57 Documents Letter by Kafka to Max Brod, October 8, 1912 103 Sokel's Comments 105 Two Conversations between Kafka and Gustav Janouch, 1920-1923 107 Kafka to His Father, November 1919 108 Entries in Kafka's Diaries 109 Critical Essays Wilhelm Emrich: Franz Kafka 113 Ralph Freedman: Kafka's Obscurity 130 Edward Honig: The Making of Allegory 135 Max Bense: Kafka's Conception (Thematik) of Being 140 Hellmuth Kaiser: Kafka's Fantasy of Punishment 144 Peter Dow Webster: Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis as Death and Resurrection Fantasy 153 Walter H. Sokel: Education for Tragedy 164 Friedrich Beissner: The Writer Franz Kafka 181 Kafka the Poet 183 Commentary 184 Helmut Richter. The Metamorphosis 186 Selected Bibliography 189