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The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)

By Franz Kafka

Book information

Year
1972
ISBN
0553213695, 9780553213690
Open Library ID
OL22474238M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
327 kB (335254 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
30\30
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

"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."

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