Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka



Luis Scafati (illustrations)

«When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his hard, as it were armour-plated back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his dome-like brown belly.»

A key work in his narrative production, Metamorphosis is a vast and vivid nightmare that concentrates all of the intensity of Franz Kafka. The illustrations by the great Argentine artist Luis Scafati wonderfully recreate the story’s strange atmospheres and characters.

César Aira (translation)

245 x 205 mm; 60/72 pp. Hardback | ISBN: 84-9795-003-8

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Kafka & Poe



Luis Scafati (illustrations)

A key work in his narrative production, Metamorphosis, is a vast and vivid nightmare that concentrates all of the intensity of Franz Kafka. The illustrations by the great Argentine artist Luis Scafati wonderfully recreate the story’s strange atmospheres and characters.



The Black Cat, the story that gives this volume its title. In the short stories in this collection, the everyday reveals to the reader a second, darker nature. Hallucination or reality? An ambiguous threshold to the fantastical universe of Edgar Allen Poe.

13 x 23 cm. 128 pp. Rústica con solapas

Luis Scafati

Mendoza, Argentina, 1947



Studied Arts at the National University of Cuyo. His work has been exhibited in Barcelona, Frankfurt and Madrid and forms part of the collections of major museums in Buenos Aires; it is also owned by the House of Humour and Satire (Bulgaria), the Collection of Cartoons (Switzerland) and the University of Essex (England). His work has been published in Brazil, Czech Republic, England, France, Greece, Italy, Korea, Mexico and Spain. He won the Grand Prix of Honour at the National Comics Salon (Buenos Aires, 1981).

Títulos publicados:
Dracula
The Black Cat
Metamorphosis
La aventura del Town-Ho
The Absent City
Arthur Gordon Pym