The Metamorphosis (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Metamorphosis Excellent new English translations of title story (considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work), plus `The Judgment,` `In the Penal Colony,` `A Country Doctor,` and `A Report to an Academy.` A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Full description- Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
- Published: 04 December 1996
- Format: Paperback 96 pages
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- Categories: Classics | Short Stories | Fiction In Translation
- ISBN 13: 9780486290300 ISBN 10: 0486290301
- Sales rank: 365
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Full description for The Metamorphosis
`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 inadequecy, guilt, and isolation, `The Metamorphosis` has taken its place as one of the mosst 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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