By Publisher: Bantam Classics
ISBN: 0553213695
Release Date: 1972-03-01
List Price: USD 5.95
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Book description:
"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning fromunsettling dreams, he found himself changed in hisbed into a monstrous vermin." With thisstartling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny firstsentence, 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 harrowing -- thoughabsurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings ofinadequecy, guilt, and isolation, TheMetamorphosis has taken its place as oneof the mosst widely read and influential works oftwentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote,"Kafka is important to us because his predicamentis the predicament of modern man."
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