When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.With thisstartling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece,TheMetamorphosis. It is the story of
When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.
With thisstartling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece,TheMetamorphosis. It is the story of ayoung man who, transformed overnight into a giantbeetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace tohis family, an outsider in his own home, aquintessentially alienated man. A harrowingthoughabsurdly comicmeditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation,TheMetamorphosishas taken its place as oneof the most widely read and influential works oftwentieth-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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