“Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.”-W.H. Auden “The common experience of Kafka’s readers is one of general and vague fascination, even in stories they fail to understand, a precise ...
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.'' So begins Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, arguably the best-known and...
One of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century, The Metamorphosis finds traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, inexplicably transformed into a large, monstrous insect-like creature.
Doug counts down from three in his head as he readies himself to move. On one, Doug stand up and fires six shots into the subtly illuminated room. No paint pellets rip past him as he crouches again. He stands again and, sure enough, ...
This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury, while continuing to unsettle millions of readers. Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life.
This Modern Library edition collects Stanley Corngold’s acclaimed English translation—long hailed as the gold standard by scholars and general readers alike—along with seven critical essays by writers including Philip Roth, W. H. ...
Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up in his bed to find himself transformed into a large insect.
When Gregor Samsa awakens one morning, he discovers that he has changed into a giant dung beetle.
The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world.
The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect.
This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury, while continuing to unsettle millions of readers.
The metamorphosis
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a real classic.
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a real classic.
The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin".The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed ...
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The Metamorphosis begins almost comically. A man wakes up to find he has turned into an insect. But the claustrophobic, dirty room and the increasingly distressed narrator soon turn this into a tale of slow horror.
It has been called one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world.The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed ...