The first appearance of Kafka’s dark exposition on alienation
 
Die Verwandlung[The Metamorphosis] in Die Weissen Blätter magazine
Franz Kafka
Leipzig, 1915
 
The complete 1915 run of the prominent literary magazine, 12 issues in all, featuring the October 1915 issue containing the first appearance of Kafka’s masterpiece - released 2 months before the nearly ubiquitous book edition. 
 
Spines toned, mild foxing and toning at the cover margins, October issue rear cover with a manufacturing crease, internally very fresh, all Very Good sound copies. Excellent survivals and rare in solid, original condition.
 
Kafka’s story follows salesman, Gregor Samsa, who awakes to find himself transformed into a verminous creature, increasingly shunned by his family. 
 
“…It shows the difficulties of living in a modern society and the struggle for acceptance of others when in a time of need. In this novella, Kafka directly reflects upon many of the negative aspects of his personal life, both mentally and physically. The relationship between Gregor and his father is in many ways similar to Franz and his father Herrman. The Metamorphosis also shows resemblance to some of Kafka’s diary entries that depict him imagining his own extinction by dozens of elaborated methods.“(Stephens)
 
“Gregor’s predicament…gives us a brand of existentialism that is not rooted in absurdity by reflection, but by one’s immediate context of existence.”(Devita)
 
 
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