卡夫卡《变形记》的初版封面画涉及作者意图表达、出版商及画家的策划、批评家的解读活动等多个环节。从传记学角度看,关于这个封面画的故事表明:在作家的“自传式理解”与对于作家的“传记式理解”之间,传记事实与对传记事实的解释之间,以及真实与虚构之间,存在着某种不言自明的界限;而界限自身,也可以膨大拓展成为一个意义构建的空间。 The first edition cover of Kafka’s Metamorphosis relates to the author’s intent to express, the planning of publishers and painters, the interpretation of critics and many other aspects. From a biographical point of view, the story about this cover art shows that between the author’s autobiographical understanding and the writer’s biographical understanding, between the fact of biography and the interpretation of biographical facts, and There is some self-evident boundary between reality and fiction, and the boundary itself can also be expanded to become a space for meaning construction.