With today’s world of work feeling ever more absurd, Melville’s timeless classic Bartleby, the Scrivener – A Story of Wall Street has found a new wave of popularity. Was Bartleby just a slacker with a too laid-back boss? Or maybe a brave rebel in the dark heart of the system?
Title: Bartleby yr Ysgrifennwr Author:Herman Melville ISBN: 978-1-0369-6923-3 Published by: www.iawn.cymru £6.50. 84 pages, A5, softback, 2026 Distributed by:Books Council of Wales From your local bookshop and online at www.gwales.com
Franz Kafka’s classic Metamorphosis is now an easy reader book for Welsh learners
Learner-friendly vocabulary and grammar tips for each paragraph to help open your path to better reading in Welsh.
Title: Metamorffosis Author: Franz Kafka ISBN: 978-1-5272-8579-8 £6, 72 pages, paperback Distributed by:Books Council of Wales From your local bookshop and online at www.gwales.com
Ebook: ISBN: 978-1-5272-9128-7 E-pub format, £6 from ffolio.cymru
Kafka’s work has been adapted with simplified vocabulary and verb structures, making it an ideal easy reader.
Kafka’s unique body of writing is considered amongst the most influential in Western literature. The word “Kafkaesque” has come into common use to denote mundane yet absurd and surreal circumstances of the kind commonly found in Kafka’s work.
His most famous pieces of writing include this short story Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis), first published in 1915.
With the kind support of Neue Walisische Kunst
We gratefully acknowlege the kind support of NWK – (New Welsh Art) who promote artistic projects and cultural links between Wales and Germany. Two of the main contributors to the Kafka book project are German language tutors who are themselves learning Welsh.
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