Kafka's most celebrated tale of a commercial salesman unexpectedly freed from the drudgery of his job by his inexplicable transformation into a huge insect is an enduring masterwork of dark humour, existentialist dread and sublime sense of drama.
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One morning, ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach. Metamorphosis, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, is one of the twentieth century's most influential works of fiction, and is accompanied here by two more classic stories.
'He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him' - Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241573730
Number of pages: 144
Weight: 172 g
Dimensions: 169 x 116 x 17 mm
He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him - Vladimir Nabokov
Kafka described with wonderful imaginative power the future concentration camps, the future instability of the law, the future absolutism of the state, the paralysed, inadequately motivated, floundering lives of the many individual people; everything appeared as a nightmare and with the confusion and inadequacy of a nightmare - Bertolt Brecht
Or My Freeloading family. A book about a fella who wakes up, finds himself to be a huge roach and then proceeds to have his family demand he supports their NEETdom by going back to work anyway. The roles are soon... More
I studied this book as a part of my theatrical studies and out of own personal interest. Gregor Sansa awakes one morning from uneasy dreams and finds himself inexplicably transformed into a gigantic monstrous vermin.... More
Franz Kafka's literature can certainly be a life changing experience. Reading a contemporary translation has been helpful in understanding Kafka's subtlety, humour and hidden meaning in his prose. Myself not... More
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