The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka(1915)
Novelc. 60 pages
“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.”
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by Franz Kafka(1915)
“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.”
Franz Kafka(1915)
Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant insect and must somehow continue to support his family. Kafka wrote this in a few weeks, and it has become his most famous work. The prose is matter-of-fact, clerical, which makes the horror worse. No one explains the transformation; no one will. The family's response moves from horror to accommodation to rejection. Gregor's room shrinks around him. His violin-playing sister learns to live without him. Kafka forbade his friend Max Brod to publish his work after his death. Brod disobeyed. The beetle remains, on its back, unable to right itself.