The metamorphosis / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

"A representative selection of the best critical interpretations of Kafka's crucial narrative, The metamorphosis"--Editor's note.

Bibliography: p. 139-141.

Gregor Samsa and modern spirituality / Martin Greenberg -- Metamorphosis of the metaphor / Stanley Corngold -- The dramatic in Kafka's Metamorphosis / Evelyn Torton Beck -- The metamorphosis / Ronald Gray -- Die Verwandlung, Freud, and the chains of Odysseus / David Eggenschwiler -- The impersonal narrator of The metamorphosis / Roy Pascal -- From Marx to myth : the structure and function of self-alienation in Kafka's Metamorphosis / Walter H. Sokel -- Kafka and Sacher-Masoch / Mark M. Anderson.

Includes index.