La Metamorfosis. Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, [1938].
First edition in Spanish of Kafka's Metamorphosis. Translation and Preface by Jorge Luis Borges (“Traduccion directa del aleman y prologo por Jorge Luis Borges.”)
Small octavo. [191], [1, blank] pp. Title-page printed in red and black. Publisher’s printed paper boards, glassine jacket. Light rubbing to glassine, book spine sunned and soiled, minor rubbing and thumbsoil to covers. Still, a near fine copy.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is considered one of the most influential and acclaimed South American writers of our century. He wrote short stories, poetry, literary criticism, and translations. He won many literary honors throughout his long and distinguished career, but not the Nobel Prize for Literature, despite the fact that many in the literary and scholarly community felt he deserved it.
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was one of the most prominent German writers of the twentieth century (although he himself was born and lived in Prague, he wrote primarily in German). He was extremely influential, and his writing style has been variously described as existential or as magical realism, when it seems that his style defies all category. His most famous works are The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Penal Colony, and The Castle.
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