“One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.” Kafka’s best known novella epitomizes the absurdist fiction of the 20th century.
This bilingual edition allows the uninterrupted reading of the original and Ian Johnston’s translation. It is also a perfect tool for intermediate-advanced students wanting to learn German from direct literary sources. The whole text has been parsed into small paragraphs allowing a quick comparison between the German source and the English version. With the help of the dictionary (the language of this edition has been set to match the original text), this work makes it possible - whenever is necessary - to look for the translation at the level of a single word, of a paragraph or of the whole text.
This bilingual edition allows the uninterrupted reading of the original and Ian Johnston’s translation. It is also a perfect tool for intermediate-advanced students wanting to learn German from direct literary sources. The whole text has been parsed into small paragraphs allowing a quick comparison between the German source and the English version. With the help of the dictionary (the language of this edition has been set to match the original text), this work makes it possible - whenever is necessary - to look for the translation at the level of a single word, of a paragraph or of the whole text.
