“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.”
With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing–though absurdly comic–meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, “Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.”Author: Franz Kafka
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Published: 02/01/1972
Series: Bantam Classics
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 6.94h x 4.36w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9780553213690
Language: English
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