Metamorphosis (Kafka - Dover ed.)

Author: Franz Kafka, Stanley Appelbaum

ISBN: 9780486290300

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

Subtitle: and Other Stories

"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 beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. As W. H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."