About the Book

"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."

Product Details

Media: Mass Market Paperbound Book, 224 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Bantam Books (Feb. 28th, 1972)

ISBN-10: 0553213695

ISBN-13: 9780553213690

Dimensions: 4.36 x 6.94 x 0.51 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.24 lbs

• Categories: Classics Fiction