The Metamorphosis
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"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young traveling salesman who, transformed overnight into a giant, beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. Rather than being surprised at the transformation, the members of his family despise it as an impending burden upon themselves. A harrowing-though absurdly comic-meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most 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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Kafka, F., & Cosham, R. (2011). The Metamorphosis. Unabridged. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kafka, Franz and Ralph, Cosham. 2011. The Metamorphosis. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kafka, Franz and Ralph, Cosham, The Metamorphosis. Blackstone Publishing, 2011.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kafka, Franz, and Ralph Cosham. The Metamorphosis. Unabridged. Blackstone Publishing, 2011.
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| dateLastUpdated | Aug 09, 2025 06:11:10 PM |
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