Metamorphoses, Karolina Watroba
Metamorphoses, Karolina Watroba
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Metamorphoses
In Search of Franz Kafka

Author: Karolina Watroba

Narrator: Deborah Balm

Unabridged: 7 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2024

Synopsis

In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of forty, readers all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects. Who, exactly, was Franz Kafka? Karolina Watroba, the first Germanist ever elected as a fellow of Oxford's All Souls College, will tell Kafka's story beyond the boundaries of language, time, and space, traveling from the Prague of Kafka's birth through the work of contemporary writers in East Asia, whose award-winning novels are, in part, homages to the great man himself. Metamorphoses presents a non-chronological journey through Kafka's life, combining literary scholarship with the responses of his readers throughout the last century. It is a both an exploration of Kafka's life and an exciting new way of approaching literary history.

About Karolina Watroba

Karolina Watroba is a research fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, where she works on modern literature and film across eight European languages and beyond, with a focus on German, English, and Polish. Karolina lives in Oxford, England.

About Deborah Balm

Deborah Balm is a British audiobook narrator with over sixty titles to her credit. A member of Actors Equity and the Audio Publishers Association, she loves narrating historical romance, crime thrillers, and fantasy novels. When she's not in her booth, she enjoys the company of her friends and family, dog walks with her pug Evie, quilting, and achieving Jedi level mastery of knitting. Born in Yorkshire, she now lives in Cambridge.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on March 31, 2025

welcome to...METAMARCHOSES. this is another installment of project long classics, in which i read intimidating books in small chunks over the course of a month in order to achieve three goals: a) seem smart, b) make puns, and c) have an excuse to buy penguin clothbound classics. this one is slightly d......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on July 27, 2007

I bought this copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses when I was living in Rome. It's the book I was reading on the plane when I left Rome, as the realization sunk in that an awesome and strange adventure was drawing to a close, and it's the book I was still reading when I moved back to Minneapolis and attempt......more

Goodreads review by Vit on October 09, 2022

Book the First: “Of bodies chang’d to various forms, I sing” The world is a constant changes… Everything moves and one thing always changes into the other. The earth was created by the god unknown as a sphere hanging in space… And life there was an idyll: no crimes, no enmity no wars… “From veins of......more

Goodreads review by Leonard on May 22, 2020

The Metamorphoses are Ovid’s masterpiece and one of the literary monuments of Antiquity, alongside the Bible, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid. As the title suggests, Ovid’s book is about change, transformation, mutation. Its scope is exceptionally ambitious, encyclopaedic even. It cove......more

Goodreads review by Elle on April 08, 2019

There's honestly something deeply fascinating to me about reading the words of someone who lived 2000 years ago, who wrote these exact words 2000 years ago, and though I completely understand why reading translation is done - I think reading translated lit is amazing - it is undoubtedly more interes......more

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