Description
Product ID: | 9780553213690 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | The Metamorphosis |
Authors: | Author: Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold |
Page Count: | 224 |
Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short stories, Fiction in translation, Short stories, Fiction in translation |
Description: | Select Guide Rating “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. As W.H. Auden wrote, “Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.” |
Imprint Name: | Bantam Doubleday Dell |
Publisher Name: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1972-02-01 |