'A high-spirited richly informed and original portrait a cross between biography literary
analysis and a study in modern canonisation: Karolina Watroba is an inspired guide and her book
a pleasure to read.' Marina Warner'A rich account of what modern readers have made of Kafka ...
finds room not only for the many sides of him but for a whole smörgåsbord of legacies and
afterlives that explode the cliché of the Kafkaesque' ObserverFranz Kafka was one of the most
influential and enigmatic writers of the twentieth century. His books with their mysterious
courts and monstrous insects have had an influential reach across literature music art and
film. But who exactly was Franz Kafka?Karolina Watroba tells Kafka's story beyond the
boundaries of language time and space travelling 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 is a non-chronological journey through Kafka's life
drawing together literary scholarship with the responses of his readers through time. It is a
both an exploration of Kafka's life and an exciting new way of approaching literary history.
