《变形的人》【内容简介】

　　寒冷雪夜，土地测量员来到村中，在以后的岁月中发现自己的目的地永远无法抵达；三十岁生日的清晨，银行高管突然莫名其妙地被捕，而他为审判所做的一切努力都无济于事；旅行推销员从睡梦中醒来，变成一只甲虫，整个世界变得如此陌生……在卡夫卡笔下，世界的荒凉与荒诞，个人生存的孤独与恐惧，将现实的困境前所未有的暴露于所有人的面前。

　　这套卡夫卡作品精选集共五本，即《美国》《审判》《城堡》《变形记》《卡夫卡谈话录》，收入卡夫卡各类经典作品，包括长篇小说、短篇小说、谈话录及家信，形式多样，内容丰富，虚实并重，是读懂卡夫卡的首选。

　　【作者简介】

　　弗朗茨·卡夫卡（1883—1924）：奥地利作家。生于布拉格犹太商人家庭，与父亲关系始终不睦。1906年获法学博士学位，1908年起任职于工伤保险公司，并开始发表作品。1924年病逝于维也纳。作品多呈现小人物在社会重压之下孤独、苦闷、恐惧而又不甘屈服于命运的生存状态，文字简练，风格冷峻，但因作家丰富而玄奥的思想，留下可供多样化解读的巨大空间。卡夫卡对后世影响深远，被奉为“现代主义文学之父”。代表作有《城堡》《审判》《变形记》等。

　　【译者简介】

　　韩耀成：中国社会科学院外国文学研究所编审，曾任《外国文学评论》常务副主编等，获中国翻译协会授予“资深翻译家”称号。著有《德国文学史》（第四卷）等，译有《少年维特的烦恼》《城堡》《一个陌生女人的来信》等。

　　赵登荣：北京大学德语系教授，资深翻译家，在德语文学研究领域造诣深厚。译有《悲剧的诞生》《荒原狼》《投敌者》《井中男孩》等。

　　米尚志：复旦大学德语系教授，翻译家。译有《美国》《城堡》《说谎者雅各布》等。

　　冯亚琳：四川外国语大学教授、博士生导师，中外文化比较研究中心主任兼欧洲文化研究所所长。著有《德语文学与文化——阐释与思辨》《德语文学中的文化记忆与民族价值观》等，译有《审判》《比目鱼》等。

　　马嫽：任教于北京科技大学，主要从事德语文学等研究与教学工作。

"Shape-shifter" 【 Content Introduction 】

The land surveyor arrives in the village on a cold and snowy night, only to discover in later years that his destination will never be reached; On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, a bank executive is suddenly and inexplicably arrested, and all his efforts for the trial are to no avail; The traveling salesman wakes up from his sleep, turns into a beetle, and the whole world becomes so strange... In Kafka's works, the desolation and absurdity of the world, the loneliness and fear of individual survival, expose the predicament of reality to all people like never before.

This set of five selected works of Kafka, namely "America", "The Trial", "The Castle", "Metamorphosis" and "Kafka's Conversations", includes all kinds of classic works of Kafka, including novels, short stories, conversations and letters from home, diverse in form, rich in content, both false and real, is the first choice to understand Kafka.

【 About the author 】

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) : Austrian writer. Born into a Jewish merchant family in Prague, he never got along with his father. He received his juris Doctor degree in 1906, and began to work for the Workers' Injury Insurance Company in 1908, where he began to publish. He died in Vienna in 1924. Most of the works show the living state of small people who are lonely, depressed, afraid and unwilling to yield to fate under the pressure of society. The text is concise and the style is cold, but the writer's rich and mysterious thoughts leave huge space for diversified interpretation. Kafka had a profound influence on later generations and was regarded as the "father of modernist literature". His masterpieces include "The Castle", "The Trial" and "The Metamorphosis".

What do you mean?

Han Yaocheng: Editor of the Institute of Foreign Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, former Executive deputy editor of Foreign Literature Review, and was awarded the title of "Senior Translator" by the Translators Association of China. He is the author of the History of German Literature (Volume 4), and has translated the Troubles of Young Werther, The Castle, and Letters from a Strange Woman.

Zhao Dengrong: Professor of German Department of Peking University, senior translator, in the field of German literature research profound attainments. Translated "Birth of Tragedy", "Steppenwolf", "The Collaborators", "The Boy in the Well" and so on.

Mi Shangzhi: Professor, translator, Department of German, Fudan University. He has translated "America", "The Castle", "Jacob the Liar" and so on.

Feng Yalin: Professor and doctoral supervisor of Sichuan Foreign Studies University, Director of the Center for Comparative Research of Chinese and Foreign Cultures and Director of the Institute of European Culture. He is the author of "German Literature and Culture: Interpretation and Speculation", "Cultural Memory and National Values in German Literature", and translated "Trial" and "Flounder".

Ma 嫽 teaches at University of Science and Technology Beijing, mainly engaged in the research and teaching of German literature.