Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis - Bantam Classics

"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.
ISBN: 9780553213690
Author: Franz Kafka
Page: 194
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2004
Format: Book
Publisher: BANTAM
Language: English

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Price: 2 650 Ft

Stock: 1-10 copies

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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 -- meditationon 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 predicamentisthe predicament of modern man."

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