The metamorphosis
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A novel about a man who finds himself transformed into a huge insect, and the effects of this change upon his life. This is a fantastic horror story about a hapless man who is turned into an insect. 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 inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction.
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Kafka, F., & Aaltonen, W. (2009). The metamorphosis. Chartwell Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 and William. Aaltonen. 2009. The Metamorphosis. Chartwell Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 and William. Aaltonen, The Metamorphosis. Chartwell Books, Inc, 2009.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kafka, Franz, and William Aaltonen. The Metamorphosis. Chartwell Books, Inc, 2009.
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