The metamorphosis
"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."
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- ISBN: 9780812985146
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Physical Description
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xlix, 312 pages ; 21 cm. - Edition Modern Library paperback Edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2013.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-312) |
Formatted Contents Note: | The metamorphosis -- Critical essays. |
Original Version Note: | Verwandlung. |
Language Note: | Translated from the German. |