The Metamorphosis
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin."With thisstartling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, TheMetamorphosis. It is the story of ayoung man who, transformed overnight into a giantbeetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace tohis family, an outsider in his own home, aquintessentially alienated man. A harrowing-thoughabsurdly comic-meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, TheMetamorphosis has taken its place as oneof the most widely read and influential works oftwentieth-century fiction.
As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780553213690 |
| ISBN 10 | 0553213695 |
| Title | The Metamorphosis |
| Author | Franz Kafka |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Year published | 1972-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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