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"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."


ISBN-13

9780553213690

ISBN-10

0553213695

Weight

0.24 Pounds

Dimensions

4.15 x 0.50 x 6.84 In

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Edition

1st Edition

Format

-

Pages

224 pages

Publisher

Bantam Classics

Published On

1972-02-01



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