This Norton Critical Edition includes:

* Susan Bernofsky's acclaimed new translation, along with her Translator's Note.

* Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Mark M. Anderson.

* Three illustrations.

* Related texts by Kafka, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Rainer Maria Rilke, among others.

* Eight critical essays by Günther Anders, Walter H. Sokel, Nina Pelikan Straus, Mark M. Anderson, Elizabeth Boa, Carolin Duttlinger, Kári Driscoll, and Dan Miron.

* A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.