The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

Type

Book

Authors

Franz Kafka

ISBN 10

0020218079

ISBN 13

9780020218074

Tags

Classics, Short Stories, Contemporary, Literary

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." - from Amzon

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