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The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold
The Metamorphosis
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3.63 1955
"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... show more
"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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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780553213690 (0553213695)
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Pages no: 201
Edition language: English
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Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents
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4.0 The Metamorphosis
This short story is beyond weird. I mean it super is, but it really kept my attention. It's like nothing I remember reading before. I won't soon forget it.
brokenbiscuits
brokenbiscuits rated it
0.0 Books of 1916: Part Two
Books of 1916: Part Two The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Since childhood I’ve been familiar with the plot of this short novel; people talk about it all the time because it’s so compelling. I even had the first sentence memorized thanks to my older brother. Reciting it was a warm-up exercise in s...
LindaLeest
LindaLeest rated it
4.0 De gedaanteverwisseling
Oeps, dit is een erg lange samenvatting + review geworden.... Op een dag wordt Gregor wakker, en is hij veranderd in een gigantisch insect.Zo'n drastische en lichamelijk onmogelijke verandering is absurd. Ook de reacties van de karakters op deze verandering maken het verhaal des te absurder; Gregor ...
philoSophie
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5.0 Η μεταμόρφωση
Η αδυσώπητη αποξένωση της διαφορετικότητας, του Άλλου, από το σολιψισμό της πατριαρχικής κοινωνίας· μια βουτιά στο παράλογο, που αντιμετωπίζεται ως κοινή κι αναπότρεπτη κατάσταση.Ο Γκρέγκορ ξυπνά ως τεράστιο έντομο (κατσαρίδα σύμφωνα με τις περισσότερες μεταφράσεις, σκαθάρι σύμφωνα με τον Vladimir N...
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4.0 Society's Burdens
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