| Publisher |
Greyhound Press |
| Publication Year |
2014 |
| ISBN-13 |
9789930951521 |
| ISBN-10 |
9789930951521 |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Number of Pages |
66 Pages |
| Language |
(English) |
| Weight (grms) |
93 |
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Samsa's transformation is never revealed, and Kafka himself never gave an explanation. The rest of Kafka's novella deals with Gregor's attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repulsed by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor has become
Franz Kafka
An icon of twentieth-century literature, Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883, into a middle class, German family in Prague. Never famous in his own lifetime, most of Kafka’s works were published and translated only during the 1920s and 1930s and almost instantly, they became cult texts of modern literature. The Judgment, The Metamorphosis and Amerika were all written in 1912 while The Trial, Kafka’s most famous novel, was written in 1914. Kafka died of tuberculosis in 1924.
Franz Kafka
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