The Metamorphosis. Translated by A.L. Lloyd.

Bookseller Notes

An important translation of the author's best-known story.The translator, A.L. ('Bert') Lloyd was an interesting figure: the greater part of his career, and its legacy, being as an ethnomusicologist and folk-singer, which began during a decade in Australia - on his return from which he began a programme of self-education at the British Museum reading room; finding employment in the Foyles foreign book department, and a circle of left-wing intellectual friends that included Dylan Thomas and Jack Lindsay, he began to publish his own writing and translations - including Kafka and Lorca.