I’m including them because I am a completionist, but really, I’m 100% here for the cover designs alone.ġ974 by Εγνατία (bonus for this being one of Kafka’s own creepy/weird drawings)ġ993 by A. It’s also quite likely some of the editions might be mislabeled or misdated. This is not comprehensive, as I’ve purposefully chosen covers that I could track a year on and that were not made available through digital devices only (as in covers made through Createspace or for Kindle-only). Since finding the provenance of all these covers proved challenging - and it was really challenging to find covers that were prior to the 1950s - consider this gallery more about the ways that The Bug has been interpreted through time and cultures than about design aesthetics. I’ve pulled together a big collection of covers for The Metamorphosis, both in English editions, as well as foreign editions. This was the original cover from 1915, and Kafka got his wish:Īfter that, though, we got to see The Bug in its many creepy, crawly manifestations. It is not even to be seen from a distance.” The letter Kafka wrote read, “”The insect itself is not to be drawn. When The Metamorphosis was first published, Kafka told his published he did not want any representation of the insect Gregor becomes to be on the cover.
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