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The Castle and The Metamorphosis
China Overseas Publishing House · 2024
In The Castle, land surveyor K is dispatched to take up a post in a certain town. After a long journey, he is unexpectedly stopped outside the castle …
The Outsider
· 2026
"Today, Maman died. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know." Meursault, a minor clerk, lives an unvarying, ordinary life. At his mother's funeral, he does n…
The Outsider
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026
The Stranger tells the absurd life of Meursault, a minor office clerk. When his mother dies, he is regarded as an outsider for not weeping at her fune…
The Secret Meeting
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026
"I" was an ordinary man, but when my wife was forcibly taken away by ambulance, I had to go alone to a mysterious hospital to find her. The hospital i…
The Fall
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026
The Fall is a searing, deeply human confession by its protagonist, Jean-Baptiste Clamence. In a bar in Amsterdam's Mexican City quarter, Clamence, who…
The Metamorphosis
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025
This volume selects Kafka's novellas and short stories published during his lifetime, spanning several important stages of his career. It includes suc…
Revelry of the Dark Night
Guowen Runhua Culture Media (Beijing) Co., Ltd. · 2025
Night falls, and darkness, like a soul with disheveled hair, soaks the black mountains, mingles with the black river, and sinks into the vast surface …
Sentences Polished Bright
East China Normal University Press · 2025
The poems in this collection explore existence, alienation, loneliness, repression, bewilderment, and transcendence of the individual in the industria…
Objectopia
Beijing Daily Press · 2024
The sofa has a fever; a car kidnaps its driver; a mailbox and an entire building vanish into thin air; a chair falls, and the dictator seated on it fa…
The Vegetarian (New Edition | Representative Work by Han Kang, Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature)
Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024
To escape the violence of her husband, her family, society, and the crowd, she decides to become a tree. In the eyes of Yeong-hye's husband, Mr. Cheon…
A Study of the Chronotopic Features of Haruki Murakami's Novels
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2024
Drawing primarily on Bakhtin's theory of the chronotope, this book offers a systematic account of the temporal, spatial, and chronotopic structures in…
The Game of the Absurd: Eighteen Lectures on Modern Western Literature
The Commercial Press · 2024
The essays collected here were written for “Century Classics,” a column the author was invited to contribute to the renowned literary magazine Flower …
The Metamorphosis
Flower City Publishing House · 2023
The Metamorphosis tells the absurd story of Gregor, a traveling salesman who, under crushing physical and mental strain, suddenly turns into a giant i…
Selected Fiction of Kafka
Flower City Publishing House · 2023
This selection of Kafka's short fiction brings together representative shorter works, including "Before the Law," "On Parables," "The Metamorphosis," …
The Castle
The Commercial Press · 2023
The Castle is Kafka's most distinctive and most important novel (unfinished). It tells of the protagonist K., who comes to take up a post as land surv…
The Castle
Flower City Publishing House · 2023
The Castle is Kafka's great novel. K., a land surveyor, is summoned to take up a post in a certain town, but is stopped outside the gate of the Castle…
Kōbō Abe Works Series (4 Volumes)
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2023
This boxed set collects Kobo Abe's most representative novels—The Woman in the Dunes, The Box Man, and The Secret Rendezvous—along with the novella an…
The Conformist
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023
Why can I not feel love, why am I gloomy and melancholy, why can I not become a normal person like everyone else? This is the question Marcello poses …
Collected Works of Kafka (3 Volumes)
China Friendship Publishing Company · 2022
This three-volume set brings together Kafka's most representative longer and shorter fiction: The Metamorphosis, The Trial, and The Castle. Together t…
The Alder King
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2021
A thousand-year-old corpse is dug from the marsh of the alder wood, and people call it by the name of the demon king in Goethe's poem: the Alder King.…