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Franz Kafka
Die Verwandlung
Published by Diogenes as Die Verwandlung
English Title: The Metamorphosis. Illustrations by Tatjana Hauptmann.
Art, cartoon, photography, General Fiction, Gift
Books
104 pages
12.5 x 20 cm
appears 2012
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Cinema Adaptation
1997: Das Schloss
Director: Michael Haneke
Actors: Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar, Nikolaus
Paryla
1993: It's a wonderful life
Director: Peter Capaldi
Actors: Richard E. Grant, Crispin Letts
1987: Metamorphosis
Director: Jim Goddard
Actors: Steven Berkoff, Linda Marlowe, Tim Roth,
Saskia Reeves
1976: Förvandlingen
Director: Ivo Dvorák
Actors: Peter Schildt, Ernst Günther, Gunn
Wallgren, Inga-Lill Carlsson
1970: La colonia penal
Director: Raúl Ruiz
Actors: Luis Alarcón, Mónica Echeverría, Aníbal
Reyna, Nelson Villagra
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.
Foto: © ullstein bild - Imagno
The Metamorphosis
104 pages
2012