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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Franz Kafka

"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 inadequecy, guilt, and isolation, "The Metamorphosis" has taken its place as one of the mosst 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."

Book Details

  • Publisher: Dover Publications
  • Publish Date: Apr 12nd, 1996
  • Pages: 96
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.90in - 4.80in - 0.30in - 0.15lb
  • EAN: 9780486290300
  • Recommended age: 14-UP
  • Categories: • Classics• Short Stories (single author)• World Literature - Czech Republic